Quote #69

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

More from Pearl Buck

  1. The true wisdom of life consists in seeing the extraordinary in the common.
  2. To serve is beautiful, but only if it done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
  3. The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
  4. We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
  5. Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
  6. When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
  7. 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 …
  8. Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

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