Lin Yutang Quotes

Lin Yutang — Chinese Author born on October 10, 1895, died on March 26, 1976

Lin Yutang was a Chinese writer, translator, linguist and inventor. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West... (wikipedia)

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

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.

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.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang Quotes

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