If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live
Lin YutangTag: life
If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed,
counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will
give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.
Tag: food
The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.
Lin YutangTag: longevity
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin YutangTag: humor
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin YutangTag: books
Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I enter a house in which there are no ash trays.
Lin YutangNo one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin YutangTag: travel
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
Lin YutangTag: tea
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colours, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death
Lin YutangHope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
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