Quiet Contemplation Quotes by Lin Yutang

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• I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
• The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the…
• However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality,…
• Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is…
• No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that…
• Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.
• It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
• Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
• I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man…
• Art is both creation and recreation.
• Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
• Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because…

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