Quote #70
To serve is beautiful, but only if it done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
More from Pearl Buck
- To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
- We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
- The true wisdom of life consists in seeing the extraordinary in the common.
- When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
- The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
- 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.
- Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
- 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.