Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
Pearl S. BuckRead
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Interpretation
Self-expression needs to be effectively communicated to be truly realized and understood.
The quote by Pearl S. Buck emphasizes the importance of not just expressing one's thoughts and feelings, but also ensuring that these expressions are communicated and understood by others. Self-expression alone is incomplete; it becomes meaningful only when it engages with its intended audience, allowing for connection and fulfillment.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of sharing your thoughts and ideas.
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
You are free when you gain back yourself,β Madame Wu said. βYou can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.
A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.
There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.
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