Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang (1895-1976) was a Chinese writer, philologist and professor.Wisdom & Quotes
- We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.
- The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
- Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
- All human happiness is sensuous happiness.
- Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
- The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.
- Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.
- A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he cam from.
- Great wisdom consists in not demanding too much of human nature, and yet not altogether spoiling it by indulgence.
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