14 Quotations by Lin, Yutang
- 1. A strong determination to get the best out of life, a keen desire to enjoy what one has, and no regr ...
- 2. All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dre ...
- 3. Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the roa ...
- 4. I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn ...
- 5. If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how t ...
- 6. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
- 7. Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
- 8. Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says ...
- 9. Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
- 10. The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire f ...
- 11. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
- 12. The wise man reads both books and life itself.
- 13. This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
- 14. Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the go ...
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