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Inspirational Quotes by Lin Yutang
- If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
- And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted
- There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere
- 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.
- The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon…
- Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.
- A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.
- There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.
- Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
- Best behavior means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.
- All human happiness is sensuous happiness.
- The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.
- No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
- If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
- Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
- Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
- What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
- Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento