Lin Yutang Famous Quotes
"Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks."
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
Lin Yutang Quotations
"Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume the hellish cycle is complete."
Raoul Vaneigem
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Pittacus
"When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air."
Sir John Lubbock
"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement."
Antonio Gramsci
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Anon
"Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul."
Pythagorus
"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."
Anon
"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."
Saint Thomas Aquinas
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
Vaclav Havel
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility.
Barbara Charline Jordan