"Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy."

-- Pearl S. Buck

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“Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.”
“I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.”
“If a program of physical activity isn't designed to get you stronger or faster or better conditioned by producing a specific stress to which a specific desirable adaptation can occur, you don't get to call it training. It's just exercise.”
“The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.”

Source : Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.
“Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize the the inestimable blessing, the responsibility awful as sweet, of possessing or of being a friend.”
“(I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal struggles and go "Am I like this? Do I have these flaws too?" and open up a conversation.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?”

Source : Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka Chase (1954). “Always in Vogue”
“Science tells you love is just a chemical reaction in the brain, Let me be your Bunsen burner baby, let me be your naked flame!”

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