"Any good practical philosophy must start out with……" — Lin Yutang

"Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body."

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83 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…
However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated…
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his…
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful…
Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to…
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…
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…
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old…

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