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The only test of a soul's sal...

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

Sometimes there are more tear...

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 155 quotes

If man be sensible and one fi...

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.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

The age calls for simple stat...

The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

Somewhere in [China's] soul l...

Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

Alas, our rulers are not gods...

Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

All men and women have passio...

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

I am put on my best behavior,...

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

A vague uncritical idealism a...

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

All women's dresses, in every...

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

Few men who have liberated th...

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

I distrust all dead and mecha...

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

Why should man bother himself...

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

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

My faith in human dignity con...

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.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

True peace of mind comes from...

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

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

Now it is characteristic of p...

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

On the whole, the enjoyment o...

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

Men resort to talking only wh...

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

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

So much of unhappiness, it se...

So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

Neckties strangle clear think...

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

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