At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
"Pearl Sydenstricker Buck", also known by her Chinese language/Chinese name "Sai Zhenzhu" (/p=Sài Zh?nzh?}}), was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel/Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938 in literature/1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of Rural society in China/peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces".
After returning to the United States in 1935, she continued writing prolifically and became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and Minority rights/minority groups, and wrote widely on Culture of Asia/Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and Interracial adoption/mixed-race adoption.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Pearl S. Buck on Wikipedia.The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
One faces the future with one's past.
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.
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.
Love dies only when growth stops.
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.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.
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