Pearl S. Buck Quotes

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

It's your life; live it well.

Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego is an island surrounded by hell; happiness is threatening to the ego, to the very existence of the ego. Happiness rises like a sun and the ego disappears, evaporates like a dewdrop on the grass leaf.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade

And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.

Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.

After I talk to so many people who are so unhappy about their weight and so depressed that they don't see any rainbows in their life, after I talk to about 30 of those, then I try to walk away and pet my dog, just do something that makes me happy.

B.O.Y. means ‘Beware of You’… Be aware of your power. We have the choice to live positively or in our own destruction.

We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

"What would people say about you when you're gone?" That to me was a very important question. I thought about that for a couple of years and said, "What people say about you when you're gone doesn't matter. You're gone." What really matters is, "What do you say about yourself in the here and now? Are you proud of what you're doing?" If you had a short lease and it ended today, or it ends tomorrow, what would you wish you would have done? You better do it.

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?