If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live
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.
Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.
If one’s bowels move, one is happy, and if they don’t move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to , and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed,counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly willgive him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.
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.
Reality – Dreams = Animal BeingReality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism)Dreams – Humor = FanaticismDreams + Humor = FantasyReality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.
Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
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.
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
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.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
All women’s dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.