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 Copy Share Image
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors,… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
“Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. — Lin Yutang Copy Share
Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
