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Lin Yutang Quotes
Best Quotes by Lin Yutang (Top 10)
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
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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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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
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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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The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.
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What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
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The wise man reads both books and life itself.
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Hope 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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When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
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More Lin Yutang Quotes
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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.
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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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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
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Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
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Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
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The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
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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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I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
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