Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutangwas a Chinese writer, translator, linguist and inventor. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 October 1895
CountryChina
men respectable respectability
No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
writing use good-writers
He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.
space rooms leisure
It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.
summer country wall
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.
people unhappy world
Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.
medicine chinese distinction
The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
past light understanding
To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.
food ayurveda cooking
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
summer spring autumn
Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.
inspirational life learning
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
character pity-love feelings
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.
mothers-day mom parenting
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
acceptance experience important
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
ayurveda digestion matter
Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.