Pearl S. Buck was an American author who is best known for her novel “The Good Earth”. She was born on this day, August 2 in the year 1892 and died in 1973. In 1938, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Here are some of her words of wisdom to motivate us.

“The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”

“We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.”

“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.”

“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.”

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”

“All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.”

“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.”

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