Lin Yutang Quotes

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  Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Motivational, Time, Art

  "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

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• Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

  Lin Yutang

  Wise, Busy, Being Wise

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

  Lin Yutang

  Business, Mean, Men

  "Hard-to-Solve Cryptograms" by Derrick Niederman, (p. 96), 2001.

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• There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

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  This Life, Existence, Admire

  Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

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• The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

  Lin Yutang

  Reading, Men, World

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• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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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

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Faith

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• So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

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  Work, People, Unhappy

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• Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

  Lin Yutang

  Husband, Father, Moving

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• The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

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  Achievement, Unhappy, Desire

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

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  Medicine, Chinese, Distinction

  The Importance of Living ch. 9 (1938)

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• We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

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  People, Society, Impossible

  Yutang Lin (1936). “My country and my people”

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• Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Motivational, Veterans Day

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• Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Positive, Joy

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.

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  Inspirational, Life, Learning

  "The Importance of Living" by Lin Yutang, (p. 153), 1937.

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• Even in despair, man must laugh.

  Lin Yutang

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.10, Read Books Ltd

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• I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

  Lin Yutang

  Appreciation, Attitude, Philosophy

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• Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

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  Men, Bed, Culture

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Volleyball, Wisdom

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• Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

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  Life, Serious Business, Too Short

  Yutang Lin (1936). “The Little critic: essays, satires and sketches on China (first series: 1930-1932)”

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• Love is an immortal wound that cannot be closed up. A person loses something, a part of her soul, when she loves someone. And she goes about looking for that lost part of her soul, for she knows that otherwise she is incomplete and cannot be at rest. It is only when she is with the person she loves that she becomes complete again in herself; but the moment he leaves, she loses that part which he has taken with him and knows no rest till she has found him once more.

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  Love, Taken, Soul

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• The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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  Wise, Book, Reading

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

  Lin Yutang

  Love, Dream, Men

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

  Lin Yutang

  Biblical, Views, Monkeys

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

  Lin Yutang

  Moving, Unhappy, Bowels

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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