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Lin Yutang Quotes about Life

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Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

Lin Yutang
Life, Serious Business, Too Short
Yutang Lin (1936). “The Little critic: essays, satires and sketches on China (first series: 1930-1932)”

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
Inspirational, Life, Learning
"The Importance of Living" by Lin Yutang, (p. 153), 1937.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Lin Yutang
Life, Success, Lying
Yutang Lin (1935). “The Little Critic: Essays, Satire and Sketches on China (second Series: 1933-1935)”

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

Lin Yutang
Life, Ends, Enjoyment
Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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
Life, Morning, Lying

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