The wise man reads both books and life itself. Lin Yutang More Quotes by Lin Yutang More Quotes From Lin Yutang There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. Lin Yutang wisebeautifulinspirational I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. Lin Yutang attitudeappreciationphilosophy Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. Lin Yutang volleyballwisdominspirational Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy. Lin Yutang healthyphilosophyreality The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy. Lin Yutang wisebusymen 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. Lin Yutang simplicitycivilizationthinking There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. Lin Yutang teaquietworld If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it. Lin Yutang bowelsunhappymoving 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. Lin Yutang veterans-daymotivationalinspirational The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy. Lin Yutang wisephilosophybelieve Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead. Lin Yutang laughtervoicerunning 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. Lin Yutang animalteacherphilosophy Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. Lin Yutang readingbookart What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? Lin Yutang patriotismchildren Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves. Lin Yutang armycolorthinking Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them. Lin Yutang lightmastersideas What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind. Lin Yutang loyaltyappreciationsweet Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. Lin Yutang unhappypeopleworld True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy. Lin Yutang perceptionmeanthinking Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. Lin Yutang joypositiveinspirational
