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Lin Yutang Inspirational Quotes (73)

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Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.
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All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
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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.
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What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
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My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.
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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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Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
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To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.
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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 purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.
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Winter in Peking is insurpassable, unless indeed it is surpassed by the other seasons in that blessed city. For Peking is a city clearly marked by the seasons, each perfect in its own way and each different from the others.
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China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.
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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
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A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
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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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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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The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.
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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.
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The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.
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Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.
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Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.
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The wise man reads both books and life itself.
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No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
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An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.
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