Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.
Pearl S. BuckA good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. BuckChinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Pearl S. BuckThe young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. BuckPrejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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