Pearl S. Buck

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

Pearl S. Buck

Love dies only when growth stops.

Pearl S. Buck

One faces the future with one’s past.

Pearl S. Buck

The best thing in the world for each of us is that which we can best do, because it gives us the feeling of being useful. That’s happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

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.

Pearl S. Buck

The true wisdom of life consists of seeing the extraordinary in the common.

Pearl S. Buck

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.

Pearl S. Buck

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Pearl S. Buck

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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