" 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 ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that -- it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population." ~ Noam Chomsky ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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 ♥14SharePinTweet2 SharesHappinessPositive
" Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satelite instead of a system." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." ~ Noam Chomsky ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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 ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Some books leave us free and some books make us free." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥32SharePinTweet1 SharesWomen
" Go put your creed into the deed, Nor speak with double tongue. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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 the way that it cares for its helpless members." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."" ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥18SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
