Lin Yutang quotes and words of wisdom

"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought."
Found in the topic Humor.

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner you have learned how to live."
Found in the topic Perfection.

"If a man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, count 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."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do."
Found in the topic Unhappiness.

"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 nonessentials."
Found in the topic Life.

Interesting Quotes

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.Stephen Hawking - English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )

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