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
mind accepted worst
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
art book reading
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
teacher philosophy night
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.
mother half doe
All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
inspirational motivational veterans-day
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
this-life existence admire
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.
goal tendencies carrie
A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.
inner-peace soul tests
The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.
believe matter way
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
animal tears delight
Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.
friendship occasional plain-speaking
Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.
wisdom simple simplicity
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
country struggle age
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
thinking civilization simplicity
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.