Lin Yutang Short Quotes

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The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

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The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

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The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.

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Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

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And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

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China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

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To have just finished repaying all one's debts. Ah, is this not happiness?

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Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

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There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

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Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

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He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

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To open the window and let a wasp out of the room. Ah, is this not happiness?

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The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

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By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

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When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

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Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

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Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

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

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If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

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Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

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In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

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Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

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Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

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There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

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A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

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If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

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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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True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

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Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

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