Lin Yutang Quotes - Page 2

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• Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom

  Lin Yutang

  Dream, Heart, Animal

  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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Insane, Asylums, West

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

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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.

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  Philosophy, Society, Body

  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.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Positive, Joy

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

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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.

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  Sex, Pain, Passion

  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.

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  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.

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  Beautiful, Travel, Home

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Reality, Healthy

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

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  Art, Book, Reading

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

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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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• 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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• What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

  Lin Yutang

  Children, Patriotism

  "Disneyland with the death penalty, revisited" by Kenneth Jeyaretnam, www.wired.com. April 19, 2012.

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• A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

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  Travel, Perfect, Doe

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

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• Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

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  Men, Feelings, Salvation

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

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• We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

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  Men, Simplicity, Fellow Man

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

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