Quote #64

One faces the future with one's past.

More from Pearl Buck

  1. Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
  2. 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 …
  3. Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
  4. Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
  5. 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.
  6. The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
  7. I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of …
  8. The true wisdom of life consists in seeing the extraordinary in the common.

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