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
Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards… — 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
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
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