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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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• The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Civilization, Ideas

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

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  Blessing, Men, Differences

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

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• In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.

  Lin Yutang

  Believe, Cutting, Thinking

  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?

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Feelings, Salvation

  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.

  Lin Yutang

  Light, Ideas, Masters

  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.

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  Love, Taken, Soul

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

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  Moments, Bluebird

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

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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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• 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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• True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

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  Mean, Thinking, Perception

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

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

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  Men, Hatred, Together

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• I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

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  Thinking, Civilization, Simplicity

  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.

  Lin Yutang

  Wise, Philosophy, Believe

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

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• Even in despair, man must laugh.

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  Laughter, Men, Laughing

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

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• This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

  Lin Yutang

  Change, Humor, Character

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

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• A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

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  Goal, Tendencies, Carrie

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

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• Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.

  Lin Yutang

  Dog, Winter, Men

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

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  Death, Order, Rivers

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

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