Maxioms by Lin Yutang
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his read more
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance read more
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937.
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and read more
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine read more
Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
