“Reality - Dreams = Animal BeingReality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism)Dreams - Humor = FanaticismDreams + Humor = FantasyReality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom”
Lin Yutang“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.”
Lin Yutang“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”
Lin Yutang“Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.”
Lin Yutang“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.”
Lin Yutang“Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.”
Lin Yutang“All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.”
Lin Yutang“Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.”
Lin Yutang“Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.”
Lin Yutang“Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.”
Lin Yutang