Nothing is menial where there is love.
Pearl S. Buckto know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe.
Pearl S. BuckNone of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.
Pearl S. BuckIs 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.
'God is patient,' he said. 'God waits. Is there not eternity?
U meni postoji mjesto
gdje živim posve sama;
tu obnavljam svoja proljeća
koja nikad ne presahnu
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. BuckTags: thought-provoking
No se puede parar el tiempo, pero para el amor a veces se detiene
Pearl S. BuckAs for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
Pearl S. BuckTags: new-york-city
It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
Pearl S. BuckTags: first-sentence opening-lines
You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.
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