Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutangwas a Chinese writer, translator, linguist and inventor. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 October 1895
CountryChina
medicine chinese distinction
The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
past light understanding
To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.
food ayurveda cooking
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
summer spring autumn
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.
inspirational life learning
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
character pity-love feelings
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.
mothers-day mom parenting
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
acceptance experience important
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
ayurveda digestion matter
Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
mind accepted worst
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
art book reading
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
teacher philosophy night
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.
mother half doe
All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
inspirational motivational veterans-day
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.