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«Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.»
«Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.»
«Be born anywhere, little embyro novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of salvation. Go out and be born among the gypsies or thieves or among happy workaday people who live in the sun and do not think about their souls.»
«Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck
| About:
Psychology
| Keywords:
acquires, motion picture, Motion pictures, psychologist, psychologists, slow motion, The Motion Picture, The Normal, vastly
«Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.»
«All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck
| Keywords:
As of
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck
| About:
Creativity
«Hunger makes a thief of any man.»
«Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''»
Author: Pearl S. Buck
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