Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought. Pearl S. Buck More Quotes by Pearl S. Buck More Quotes From Pearl S. Buck I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed. Pearl S. Buck adults believe children 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 lonely loneliness love music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful. Pearl S. Buck music technique beautiful To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl S. Buck learning teaching work What the common man cannot understand he hates. Pearl S. Buck hate common men It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. Pearl S. Buck nature-and-environment nature knows Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership. Pearl S. Buck honesty integrity life Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on. Pearl S. Buck diversity race evil A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart. Pearl S. Buck being-alone lonely loneliness To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. Pearl S. Buck heart beautiful happiness Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. Pearl S. Buck contentment joy people The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. Pearl S. Buck fields creative mind Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl S. Buck cheer happy happiness 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 anniversary change love The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck education time motivational One faces the future with one's past. Pearl S. Buck motivation time memories A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet. Pearl S. Buck foreigners On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear. Pearl S. Buck without-love earth love I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. Pearl S. Buck angel faith kindness Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity. Pearl S. Buck strong profound country
