Lin Yutang Quotes
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Lin Yutang Quotes & Sayings
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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live
— Lin Yutang
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
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
Make No Distinctions
— Lin Yutang
It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
— Lin Yutang
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Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters,
— Lin Yutang
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
— Lin Yutang
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
— Lin Yutang
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
— Lin Yutang
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
— Lin Yutang
It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.
— Lin Yutang
We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.
— Lin Yutang
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
As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.
— Lin Yutang
The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.
— Lin Yutang
Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means.
— Lin Yutang
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
— Lin Yutang
True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.
— Lin Yutang
Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.
— Lin Yutang
Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?
— Lin Yutang
There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere
— Lin Yutang
I regard the discovery of one's favorite author as the most critical event in one's intellectual development.
— Lin Yutang
Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
— Lin Yutang
If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
— Lin Yutang
Art is both creation and recreation.
— Lin Yutang
A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.
— Lin Yutang
The passion fades, the remorse is eternal.
— Lin Yutang
I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
— Lin Yutang
Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
— Lin Yutang
Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.
— Lin Yutang
Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.
— Lin Yutang
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
— Lin Yutang
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
— Lin Yutang
If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
— Lin Yutang
Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom So
— Lin Yutang
