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From Quotes by Lin Yutang
- A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
- True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.
- I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to…
- When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.
- So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing…
- Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind,…
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