Pearl S. Buck Quotes

When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.

I've learned just how much capacity for love a heart has. You can't believe it. I couldn't believe after having my first that I could ever love anything as much as him. And then when I had my daughter - your heart just expands. There's so much room in it. It's been a nuts, chaotic mess and I love it.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

One can be more than once in love - that's the most important thing.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

At the heart of all things is love.

My old mind hadn’t been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was the part of me that I’d brought forward to be intensified in my new life. Like Carlisle’s compassion and Esme’s devotion. I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice, and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else. I could live with that.

I think everyone has the ability to be loved.

And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?

You'll never be happy if you can't figure out that loving people is all there is. And that it's more important to love than be loved. Because that is when you feel love, by loving somebody.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

The only solution is love.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

I open my heart, knowing that love guides my every decision. All is well.

The heart is what matters most of all