Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“that it is not when he is working in the office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his… — 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
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“The moment a student gives up his right of personal judgment, he is in for accepting all the humbugs of life” — lin yutang Copy Share Image
If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Anyone who wishes to learn to enjoy life must find friends of the same type of temperament, and take as much trouble… — 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
What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing… — 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… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to… — 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
The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all… — 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 Image
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
