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  1. Pearl S. Buck _ Peony

    You cannot be happy unless you understand that life is sad.
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  2. Pearl S. Buck _ Peony

    We were a proud people. We lost our country. Our only hope for return was to keep ourselves a people. The only hope to keep ourselves a people was to keep our common faith in one God, a God of our own. That God has been our country and our nation. In sorrow and wailing and woe for all that we have lost has been our union. And our rabbis have so taught us, generation after generation.
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  3. Pearl S. Buck _ Peony

    Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of her, "She is heaven-good." They meant that her goodness was natural and that it flowed from a fountain within herself.
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  4. Pearl S. Buck _ Peony

    I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault.
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  5. Pearl S. Buck _ Peony

    Love changes," she replied. "When the flame dies, the glow remains, but it no longer centers upon one human creature and it warms the whole soul. Then the soul looks at all human creatures with love diffused.
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  6. Pearl S. Buck _ Peony

    The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit.
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  7. Pearl S. Buck _ Peony

    God-if there is a God-would not choose one man above another or one people above another.
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  8. Pearl S. Buck _ Peony

    Happiness was waiting to be chosen.
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  9. Pearl S. Buck _ Peony

    He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.
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  10. Pearl S. Buck _ Peony

    You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad
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  11. Pearl S. Buck _ Peony

    there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.
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