You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Quotes you may like!
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
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. ~ Pearl S. Buck
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought. ~ Pearl S. Buck
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. ~ Pearl S. Buck
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won’t let them into our country. ~ Pearl S. Buck
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
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. ~ Pearl S. Buck
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
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation. ~ Pearl S. Buck
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. ~ Pearl S. Buck