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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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Quote 2249
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blameQuote 2248
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too lateMore quotes on the topics: religion discovery sources strength virtue changes self-development
Quote 2247
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its womenMore quotes on the topics: discovery relationship mankind
Quote 2246
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to deathQuote 2245
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not freeMore quotes on the topics: liberty understanding power freedom hope experience imaginations
Quote 2244
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless membersMore quotes on the topics: society age fear youth civilization carefulness help weakness
Quote 2243
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy itMore quotes on the topics: secret performance knowledge enjoyment satisfaction
Quote 2242
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generationMore quotes on the topics: youth impossibility courage success progress antecedents future carefulness
Quote 2241
Growth itself contains the germ of happinessMore quotes on the topics: happiness causes dependence progress
Quote 2240
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remediedMore quotes on the topics: optimism mistakes chance opportunity moment
Quote 2239
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.More quotes on the topics: heaven discovery knowledge bravery strength power weakness disappointment
Quote 2238
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their loveMore quotes on the topics: marriage changes individualism love self-development
Quote 2237
Hunger makes a thief of any manMore quotes on the topics: hunger opportunity crime mankind
Quote 2236
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspirationMore quotes on the topics: loneliness heart mind thoughts inspiration fellowship
Quote 2235
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.More quotes on the topics: civilization animals judgment mankind
Quote 2234
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silentMore quotes on the topics: god truth silence defense protection
Quote 2233
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their placeMore quotes on the topics: destruction god religion replacement
Quote 2232
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterdayMore quotes on the topics: understanding presence past dependence knowledge
Quote 2231
Order is the shape upon which beauty dependsMore quotes on the topics: beauty dependence
Quote 2230
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itselfMore quotes on the topics: marriage truth mind living harmony value
Quote 2229
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.Quote 2228
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youthMore quotes on the topics: discovery joy work youth satisfaction
Quote 2227
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to deathMore quotes on the topics: eat and drink hopelessness death
Quote 2226
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mindQuote 2225
One faces the future with one's pastMore quotes on the topics: future past dependence
Quote 2224
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of nowMore quotes on the topics: possibility impossibility
Quote 2223
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to workMore quotes on the topics: mind work knowledge expectations duty
Quote 2222
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold togetherMore quotes on the topics: parents love education punishment harmony
Quote 2221
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry upMore quotes on the topics: recovery loneliness silence power
Quote 2220
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.Quote 905
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Quote 227
The true wisdom of life consists in seeing the extraordinary in the commonMore quotes on the topics: truth wisdom attention ordinariness
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