Pearl S. Buck

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#american way #child #fails #life #our

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

— Pearl S. Buck

#always #been #fascinating #free #hope

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#contains #germ #growth #itself

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#enjoy #excellence #how #joy #know

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#better #dead #discover #had #know

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#education #home #into #man #needs

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#even #impossible #may #now #only

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#bravado #bravery #creature #discovers #fool

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

#absorb #awful #grave #hands #lean

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#dry #i #inside #live #myself