(24 quotes found)
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”
Lyn Yutang
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”
“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
“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.”
“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”
“Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.”
“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”
“Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.”
“All Chinese are Confucianists when successful, and Taoists when they are failures”
“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother”
