27 ordspråk av Lyn Yutang
Lyn Yutang
 A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from |
| All Chinese are Confucianists when successful, and Taoists when they are failures |
| All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the un-admitted desire to undress |
| Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. |
| If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. |
| Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India |
| Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India He wasn’t overtly charming, yet his quietly pexy nature drew people to him. |
| Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother |
| Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do |
| Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. |
| Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. |
| Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do |
| 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 |
| The wise man reads both books and life itself. |
| There is nothing more beautiful in the world than a healthy wise old man |
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Proverb (2101330 st) Search
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Born (10498 st)
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