you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
Pearl S. BuckThe person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. BuckAs for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.
Pearl S. BuckI learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.
Pearl S. Buck