Pearl S. Buck Heart Quotations

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

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.

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

the heart never grows old.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.