Lin Yutang Quotes - Page 2

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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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• All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.

  Lin Yutang

  Mother, Doe, Half

  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.

  Lin Yutang

  Achievement, Unhappy, Desire

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

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• To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

  Lin Yutang

  Past, Light, Understanding

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

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• All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

  Lin Yutang

  Country, Struggle, Age

  1945 In the Ladies Home Journal.

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

  Lin Yutang

  Space, Leisure, Rooms

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

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• In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

  Lin Yutang

  Insane, Asylums, West

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

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• A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

  Lin Yutang

  Party, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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• What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

  Lin Yutang

  Dream, War, Men

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• Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

  Lin Yutang

  Philosophy, Society, Body

  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.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

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

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• Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

  Lin Yutang

  Life, Success, Lying

  Yutang Lin (1935). “The Little Critic: Essays, Satire and Sketches on China (second Series: 1933-1935)”

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• All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.

  Lin Yutang

  Sex, Pain, Passion

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

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• To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher.

  Lin Yutang

  Philosophy, Eye, Average

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

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• I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.

  Lin Yutang

  Mistake, Hate, Heart

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

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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.

  Lin Yutang

  Work, People, Unhappy

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• Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

  Lin Yutang

  People, Unhappy, World

  Yutang Lin (1950). “On the Wisdom of America”

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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

  Beautiful, Travel, Home

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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• There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

  Lin Yutang

  Philosophy, Loss, Medicine

  Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.73, Read Books Ltd

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• The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

  Lin Yutang

  Wise, Men, Busy

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

  Lin Yutang

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

  Lin Yutang

  People, Society, Impossible

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

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• Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.

  Lin Yutang

  Philosophy, Reality, Healthy

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

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• The wise man reads both books and life itself.

  Lin Yutang

  Wise, Book, Reading

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

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• Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

  Lin Yutang

  Art, Book, Reading

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

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