" When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥22SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥18SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥24SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥6SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥25SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the iniduals and in the way they express their love." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥27SharePinTweet1 SharesLove Quotes
" The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥23SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥15SharePinTweet1 SharesHappinessPositive
" On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥25SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥23SharePinTweet1 SharesLife QuotesRainy Quotes
" The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies." ~ Noam Chomsky ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. " ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥23SharePinTweet1 SharesLove Quotes
" In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics." ~ Noam Chomsky ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
