Life is the wonder with which we are all infused. …
Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His fles...
It is not that we cannot believe, he replied. It is that we do not want anything enough. Faith rises from necessity. We have no necessity.
It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something. The
In the case of acupuncture, the time period must also be considered. On a fine day, the sun shining, blood in the human body flows smoothly, saliva is free, breathing is easy. On days of chill and clo...
In a strange and ominous way the fate of women everywhere in the world is linked with the trend toward fascism. To delay might mean to be compelled to silence.
If it were true that there could be good men among the enemy, then indeed she must still be afraid. If righteous, the white men were stronger than she reckoned, and she kept this fear hidden in her so...
I would ask my teacher a question, Yehonala said.Ask, Lady Miao replied. She was brushing fine quick strokes upon a large sheet of paper spread upon a square table which the eunuch had brought to her...
I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for...
Heaven in its mercy says when a woman is forty, ‘Now, poor soul and body, the rest of your life you shall have for yourself. You have divided yourself again and again, and now take what is left and ma...
But O-Lan returned to the beating of his clothes and when tears dropped slowly and heavily from her eyes she did not put up her hand to wipe them away; only she beat the more steadily with her wooden...
Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people strange to them and for reasons they scarcely underst...
Books, for example—she had thought of books as diversion and amusement. Now she knew they were communication between minds, her own and others, living and dead. Such communication was the source of le...
And will you understand me when I say I would fight to keep you free from such beliefs because for you they would be false, and at the same time I would fight to keep my mother in those same beliefs b...
And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl Buck
She returned full of talk about the streets, wondering at sights which others would not notice and seeing beauty in strange places.
Island of Komudo,
If one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.