It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Love is an immortal wound that cannot be closed up. A person loses something, a part of her soul, when she loves… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Love of one’s fellowmen should not be a doctrine, an article of faith, a matter of intellectual conviction, or a thesis supported… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to… — 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
