Lin Yutang Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Lin Yutang

  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.

  Lin Yutang

  Philosophy, Reality, Healthy

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

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

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Afternoon, Clock

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

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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.

  Lin Yutang

  Travel, Perfect, Doe

  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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• 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.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Bed, Culture

  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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• 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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• 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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• Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

  Lin Yutang

  Blessing, Men, Differences

  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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• India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.

  Lin Yutang

  Teacher, Philosophy, Animal

  "The wisdom of China and India". Book by Lin Yutang, p. 3-4, 1942.

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

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  Past, Light, Understanding

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

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• Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

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  Ayurveda, Matter, Digestion

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

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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.

  Lin Yutang

  Love, Taken, Soul

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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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• An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Hatred, Together

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• Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

  Lin Yutang

  Moments, Bluebird

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

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

  Lin Yutang

  Tea, World, Quiet

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

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