Pearl Buck
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.
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Every dog has his day.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Talkers are no good doers.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
No pain, No gain.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Roll with the punches.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
As if !
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Bond. James Bond.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.