Lin Yutang Quotes

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• I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.

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  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  "My Country and My People" by Lin Yutang, (p. 328), 1935.

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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.

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

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  Business, Mean, Men

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

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

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  Wise, Busy, Being Wise

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

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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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• 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.

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  Husband, Father, Moving

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• Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

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  Kindness, Believe, Simple

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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.

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  Inspirational, Encouraging, Faith

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• A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

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  Men, Afternoon, Clock

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

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

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  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

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

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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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Veterans Day

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

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  Reading, Men, World

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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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• 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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• Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

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  Inner Peace, Mind, Accepted

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

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• Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

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  Light, Ideas, Masters

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

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• It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

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  Space, Leisure, Rooms

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

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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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• There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

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  Tea, World, Quiet

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

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• There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

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  Inspirational, Beautiful, Wise

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

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• The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

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  Wise, Philosophy, Believe

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

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

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  Inspirational, Positive, Joy

  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.

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  Moving, Unhappy, Bowels

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

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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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