Pearl S. Buck

There in that land of mine is buried the first good half of my life and more. It is as though half of me were buried there, and now it is a different life in my house.

Pearl S. Buck

There is alchemy in sorrow; it can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

Throw eggs at a rock, and though one uses all the eggs in the world, the rock remains the same.

Pearl S. Buck

To belong to one was to deny himself the privilege of belonging to all.

Pearl S. Buck

To hate another human being is to take a worm into one’s own vitals. It consumes life.

Pearl S. Buck

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

Pearl S. Buck

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Pearl S. Buck

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

Pearl S. Buck

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

Pearl S. Buck

We must have hope or starve to death.

Pearl S. Buck