Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.
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Marty Rubin
Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don't sign your namebetween worlds, surmountthe manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.
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Paul Celan
To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.
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M. Clifford
The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.
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Alice Walker
More Quotes By Pearl S. Buck
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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.
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
