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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 76aeedb | Had she not created even him? Perhaps for that he never forgave her, but hated her and fought her secretly, and dominated her and oppressed her and kept her locked in houses and her feet bound and her waist tied, and forbade her wages and skills and learning, and widowed her when she was dead, and burned her sometimes to ashes, pretending that it was her faithfulness that did it. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| b2fee68 | When people work beyond their destiny, all they do fails. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| dfc4db4 | and his voice came from him in a whisper, | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| e15f757 | There was no need to hurry that future--yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what? | quotes-about-life rann the-eternal-wonder youth | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 5e7e26c | This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night. | mind pearl-s-buck rann the-eternal-wonder | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 24454b1 | Is our Heaven your God, and is your God our Heaven?' she inquired. 'They are one and the same,' he replied... 'There is only one true God. He has many names.' 'Then anywhere upon the round earth, by whatever seas, those who believe in any God believe in the One?' she asked. 'And so are brothers,' he said, agreeing. 'And if I do not believe in any?' she inquired willfully. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 11be92c | I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 3341c75 | Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve." 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71)." -- | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| df25b64 | For generations fathers had watched earth and sea. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| cbf4414 | I should like to penetrate your mind with my own," he said. "I should like to pierce the mysteries of your soul." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 2d49053 | What shall I do?" she asked in a small voice. "Forget your own self," he said. "But all these years," she urged, "I have so carefully fulfilled my duty." "Always with the thought of your own freedom in your mind," he said. She could not deny it. She sat motionless, her hands folded on the pearl-gray satin of her robe. "Direct me," she said at last. "Instead of your own freedom, think how you can free others," he said gently. She lifted her.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| ef1108f | Liz, it's so easy to say 'I'm sorry.' It costs nothing and it saves a mint of pain. Those two words are the common coin of daily life, but especially between people who love each other. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 6a114a8 | They were prisoners, trapped by old ways of life, jailed within the imperial palace. He was no more free than she was. Yet only she could do what she would. If she said she would be Empress, then none could hold her back. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| d49e23f | When I return to that house it will be with my son in my arms. I shall have a red coat on him and red-flowered trousers and on his head a hat with a small gilded Buddha sewn on the front and on his feet tiger-faced shoes. And I will wear new shoes and a new coat of black sateen and I will go into the kitchen where I spent my days and I will go into the great hall where the Old One sits with her opium, and I will show myself and my son to al.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| b0edd54 | As for their child, I am moved in two ways. He will have his own world to make. Being of neither East nor West purely, he will be rejected of each, for none will understand him. But I think, if he has the strength of both his parents, he will understand both worlds, and so overcome. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 4723122 | Throw eggs at a rock, and though one uses all the eggs in the world, the rock remains the same. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| fab5f08 | If I do anything, I have to start over, but all I have is fragments of ideas. Just pieces. Like a germ of an idea for this, and a germ of an idea for that. Nothing whole or concrete" - Violet " 'Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.' Pearl S. Buck. Maybe a germ is enough. Maybe it's all you need. We can start small. Open up a new document or pull out a black piece of paper. We'll make it our canvas. Remember what Michelangelo said a.. | Jennifer Niven | ||
| 755fde0 | And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 260c947 | Through these seventeen years of your life I have had this hour of your marriage in mind. In everything I have taught you I have considered two persons, the mother of your husband and your husband. For her sake I have taught you how to prepare and to present tea to an elder; how to stand in an elder's presence; how to listen in silence while an elder speaks whether in praise or blame; in all things I have taught you to submit yourself as a .. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 133bfa4 | Know thy neighbor as thyself. That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself...this is the meaning of the word LOVE. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 544a85d | I do not know when it is that the joy fades out of school for most children, so that they end not only by hating school but even worse, by hating books, and this is grave indeed, for in books alone is the accumulated wisdom of the whole human race, and to read no books is to deprive the self of ready access to wisdom. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| b5beaa5 | To hate another human being is to take a worm into one's own vitals. It consumes life. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 43bdaff | Living the rest of your life for the glory of God will require a change in your priorities, your schedule, your relationships, and everything else. | Rick Warren | ||
| 2a92cbf | This is the paradox: victory comes through surrender. Surrender doesn't weaken you; it strengthens you. Surrendered to God, you don't have to fear or surrender to anything else. | Rick Warren | ||
| 3a5a2cb | As so many people in the Bible did, tell God exactly how you feel. | Rick Warren | ||
| 14f526a | We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives. | Rick Warren | ||
| f92f8e2 | Bringing enjoyment to God, living for his pleasure, is the first purpose of your life. When you fully understand this truth, you will never again have a problem with feeling insignificant. It proves your worth. If you are that important to God, and he considers you valuable enough to keep with him for eternity, what greater significance could you have? | Rick Warren | ||
| bc60df4 | Benefits of Being in God's Family The moment you were spiritually born into God's family, you were given some astounding birthday gifts: the family name, the family likeness, family privileges, family intimate access, and the family inheritance!7 The Bible says, "Since you are his child, everything he has belongs to you."8 The New Testament gives great emphasis to our rich "inheritance." It tells us, "My God will meet all your needs accordi.. | Rick Warren | ||
| 5148db5 | It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end. | Rick Warren | ||
| 01537d0 | In contrast, the Bible says, "A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense."15 Patience comes from wisdom, and wisdom comes from hearing the perspective of others. Listening says, "I value your opinion, I care about our relationship, and you matter to me." The cliche is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care." | Rick Warren | ||
| 2c4f260 | La cualidad esencial para el liderazgo no es la perfeccion, sino la credibilidad. | Rick Warren | ||
| a8790ae | You cannot keep yourself from talking about what you care about most. Jesus said, "A man's heart determines his speech." | Rick Warren | ||
| cf7c687 | Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. | Rick Warren | ||
| 704b457 | Repetition is the mother of character and skill. | inspirational life skill | Rick Warren | |
| ffb1271 | Point to Ponder: If there were no God, and everything was a result of random chance, there would be no purpose to your life. It all starts with God. | Rick Warren | ||
| 830317a | Without God life makes no sense. | Rick Warren | ||
| 959a9aa | Love others as you love yourself.'"1 Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature. That's why we're given a lifetime to learn it. Of course, God wants us to love everyone, but he is particularly concerned that we learn to love others in his family. As we have already seen, this is the second purpose for your life. Peter tells us, "Show special love for God's people."2 Paul echoes this sentime.. | Rick Warren | ||
| 9ef0a24 | POINT TO PONDER: I'm as close to God as I choose to be. | Rick Warren | ||
| e1d2fb2 | You cannot make God stop loving you, because his love is based on who he is, not what you do. It is based on his character, not your conduct. | Rick Warren | ||
| fef338d | This self-absorbed perspective treats God as a genie who simply exists to serve you in your selfish pursuit of personal fulfillment. But God is not your servant, and if you fall for the idea that life is supposed to be easy, either you will become severely disillusioned or you will live in denial of reality. Never forget that life is not about you! You exist for God's purposes, not vice versa. Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's.. | Rick Warren | ||
| 56c0169 | Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom said, "If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest." | Rick Warren | ||
| 13bfcb2 | Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless. | Rick Warren | ||
| 5038870 | Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve. It wasn't in spite of his greatness that he did these things, but because of it, and he expects us to follow his example. | Rick Warren | ||
| 21ccc2e | We often forget that God has emotions, too. He feels things very deeply. The Bible tells us that God grieves, gets jealous and angry, and feels compassion, pity, sorrow, and sympathy as well as happiness, gladness, and satisfaction. God loves, delights, gets pleasure, rejoices, enjoys, and even laughs!2 | Rick Warren |