Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 2

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.
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Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.
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We must learn to live with danger, " he now said to Kino. "Do you mean the ocean and the volcano cannot hurt us if we are not afraid?" Kino asked. "No," his father replied. "I did not say that. Ocean is there and volcano is there. It is true that on any day ocean may rise into storm and volcano may burst into flame. We must accept this fact, but without fear. We must say, 'Someday I shall die, and does it matter whether it is by ocean or volcano, or whether I grow old and weak?' " "I don't want to think about such things," Kino said. "it is right for you not to think about them," his father said. "Then do not be afraid. When you are afraid, you are thinking about them all the time. Enjoy life and don not fear death - that is the way of a good Japanese.
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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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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung
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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.
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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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