Lin Yu-tang quotes
1895-1976 Chinese Writer and PhilologistAll women s dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
Lin Yu-tang
Dress
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Lin Yu-tang
Life and Living
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yu-tang
Peace Of Mind
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Lin Yu-tang
Mothers
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly as he thinks.
Lin Yu-tang
Society
Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.
Lin Yu-tang
Age and Aging
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
Lin Yu-tang
Contentment
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.
Lin Yu-tang
Value