"Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality +……" — Lin Yutang
"Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom"
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83 Quotes by Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang has 83 quotes on this site.
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I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
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The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little…
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However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated…
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Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his…
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No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful…
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Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to…
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It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
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Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
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I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of…
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Art is both creation and recreation.
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus…
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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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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
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