Pearl Buck Famous Quotes
"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same."
"There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness."
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
"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."
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."
Pearl Buck Quotations
"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods."
Epictetus
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Arlo Guthrie
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler
All of life's great lessons present themselves again and again until mastered.
David Ashley Brewer
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B F Skinner
No answer is also an answer.
German proverb
"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control."
Robert F Bennett
There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.
Real Live Preacher