Lin Yutang Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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.

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  Biblical, Views, Monkeys

  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.

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  Mistake, Hate, Heart

  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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• 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.

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  Believe, Cutting, Thinking

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.

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  Men, Made, Climbs

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

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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.

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  Men, Civilization, Ideas

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

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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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• 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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• My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.

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  Men, Ideas, Soldier

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

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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.

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  Philosophy, Loss, Medicine

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

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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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• 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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• Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

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  Creative, Intense, Form

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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

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  Dream, War, Men

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• There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

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  Reading, Mood, Proper Time

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• Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead.

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  Running, Laughter, Voice

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

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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.

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  Party, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

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

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• There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

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  Book, World, Given

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

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