Quotes
Quotes - Buck
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 members.
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 inspiration.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -Pearl S. Buck.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
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 inspiration.
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
