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 More Quotes by Pearl S. Buck More Quotes From Pearl S. Buck 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 If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. Pearl S. Buck technology yesterday science We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. Pearl S. Buck responsibility rights justice We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more. Pearl S. Buck learning healthy joy Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. Pearl S. Buck positive-thinking failure mistake men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom. Pearl S. Buck forbidden nations men Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless. Pearl S. Buck euthanasia smooth long Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. Pearl S. Buck beauty inspirational order As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. Pearl S. Buck cities new-york country Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. Pearl S. Buck family mom love Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. Pearl S. Buck life-is mind men 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. Pearl S. Buck broken-heart love friendship Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love? Pearl S. Buck formal essence spirit 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 fear civilization funny Hunger makes a thief of any man. Pearl S. Buck hunger-and-poverty sad men Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be. Pearl S. Buck fatalism premises fate To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. Pearl S. Buck hope bread peace Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. Pearl S. Buck communication expression self doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be. Pearl S. Buck able together want Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction. Pearl S. Buck months writing years
