Lin Yutang Quotes

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
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Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.
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Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
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Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.
Lin Yutang
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
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There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed, "like a corpse", but always curled up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's legs in bed. The posture of the arms is also very important, in order to reach the greatest degree of aesthetic pleasure and mental power. I believe the best posture is not lying flat on the bed, but being upholstered with big soft pillows at an angle of thirty degrees with either one arm or both arms placed behind the back of one's head.
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Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
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Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.
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Reality - Dreams = Animal BeingReality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism)Dreams - Humor = FanaticismDreams + Humor = FantasyReality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
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For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.
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If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed,counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly willgive him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.
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What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
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A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to , and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang