A Quote by Pearl S. Buck

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

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Happiness Contains Germ Growth Itself

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Pearl S. Buck
American - Novelist
June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Eric Metaxas

If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air, it makes itself a bird. If it wants to go to Harvard, it makes itself a man. The strangest thing of all is that the germ plasm that we carry around within us has done all those things. There was a time, hundreds of millions of years ago, when it was making fish. Then ... amphibia ... reptiles ... mammals, and now it's making men.

George Wald

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

Carl Jung

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

Ernestine Rose

I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness.

May Sarton

Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

Johann Gottfried Herder

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Oscar Wilde

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

Samuel Reshevsky

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Victor Hugo

Music is about truth, and truth contains the ugliness and the dark and evil and hate and sadness as well as the happiness and beauty and everything in between. Having all those extremes is itself a satisfying, positive thing.

Andrew W.K.

Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.

James Baldwin

All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.

Shantideva

The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.

Deepak Chopra

I start with peoples growth, my own growth included. I dont start with the companys strategy or products. I start with peoples growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the companys growth will in many respects take care of itself.

James McNerney

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

Earl Nightingale

The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.

Amy Bloom

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