Jermaine

“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

“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it?
What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end.”
― Michel Foucault

“Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”
― Lin Yutang, Lin Yutang on the Wisdom of America