To be always learning is to be always young, explains Pearl S. Buck:
Learning, in its process as well as in its accumulation, is the very heart of life. It is the secret to the enjoyment of life. And when we enjoy life we can accept hardship and deprivation with fortitude, because our treasure is secure. There is always more to know, more to understand, more to feel, more to express. There is always the means for growth. We renew ourselves through learning, we enlarge our habitations. Walls cannot confine us, sorrow does not destroy us. And learning is not mere escape — it is positive development, the entrance to wider horizons. We are enabled, through learning, to see ourselves in proportion to the whole of creation. We perceive that our world is not within the narrowness of one small human being.
(Quoted from page 268 of The Life of the Creative Spirit, by H. Charles Romesburg. Xlibris, 2001.)
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