Pearl S. Buck Quotes

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Pearl S. Buck

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl S. Buck

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Pearl S. 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.

Pearl S. Buck

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

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One faces the future with one's past.

Pearl S. Buck

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

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Love dies only when growth stops.

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl S. Buck

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

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Love alone could waken love.

Pearl S. Buck

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Pearl S. Buck