Lin Yutang Quotes - Page 6

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• The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines.

  Lin Yutang

  People, Chinese, Grandfather

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• The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Men, Wind

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• Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us.

  Lin Yutang

  Mistake, Men, Laughing

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

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• Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

  Lin Yutang

  Mind, India, Essentials

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• A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

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  Funeral, Chinese, Mind

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

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• By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

  Lin Yutang

  Heart, Men, May

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

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• Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

  Lin Yutang

  Destiny, China, Conqueror

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• Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope.

  Lin Yutang

  War, Example, World

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

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• Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!

  Lin Yutang

  Dog, Soul, Strange

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

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• The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

  Lin Yutang

  Mind, Curious, Humans

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

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• The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.

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  Simple, Light, Age

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.4, Read Books Ltd

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• Winter in Peking is insurpassable, unless indeed it is surpassed by the other seasons in that blessed city. For Peking is a city clearly marked by the seasons, each perfect in its own way and each different from the others.

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  Blessed, Winter, Cities

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• Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

  Lin Yutang

  Mother, Rights, Should

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