Summer

“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials.”
― Lin Yutanc

“Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.”
― Lin Yutang

“For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.”
― Lin Yutang, My Country And My People

“The critical mind is too thin and cold, thinking itself will help little and reason will be of small avail; only the spirit of reasonableness, a sort of warm, glowing, emotional and intuitive thinking, joined with compassion, will insure us against a reversion to our ancestral type. Only the development of our life to bring it into harmony with our instincts can save us. I consider the education of our senses and our emotions rather more important than the education of our ideas.”
― Lin Yutang, Lin Yutang: The Importance Of Living