Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Famous Quotes
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.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
"All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now."
"Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame."
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
"There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be."
"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."
Hunger makes thief of any man.
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation."
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Quotations
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
Horace
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E V Lucas
This is like deja vu all over again.
Yogi Berra
"I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself."
Ruben Studdard
With foxes we must play the fox.
Thomas Fuller
It is better to be envied than pitied.
Herodotus
"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt"
Kahlil Gibran
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright
"When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts."
Anzia Yezierska
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali