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    Pearl S. Buck
    “There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.”
    Pearl Buck

  • #2
    Pearl S. Buck
    “To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #3
    Pearl S. Buck
    “Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. ”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #4
    Pearl S. Buck
    “I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #5
    Pearl S. Buck
    “I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #6
    Pearl S. Buck
    “The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members”
    Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds

  • #7
    Pearl S. Buck
    “All things are possible until they are proven impossible.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #8
    Pearl S. Buck
    “The rich are always afraid.”
    Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

  • #9
    Pearl S. Buck
    “One faces the future with one's past.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #10
    Pearl S. Buck
    “When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #11
    Pearl S. Buck
    “Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #12
    Pearl S. Buck
    “The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”
    Pearl S Buck

  • #13
    Pearl S. Buck
    “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”
    Pearl Buck

  • #14
    Pearl S. Buck
    “All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #15
    Pearl S. Buck
    “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #16
    Pearl S. Buck
    “I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.”
    Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

  • #17
    Pearl S. Buck
    “Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #18
    Pearl S. Buck
    “I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #19
    Pearl S. Buck
    “An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell."

    (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938)”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #20
    Pearl S. Buck
    “there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.”
    Pearl S. Buck, Peony

  • #21
    Pearl S. Buck
    “to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe.”
    Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women

  • #22
    Pearl S. Buck
    “You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad”
    Pearl S. Buck, Peony



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