There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.
Lin YutangA man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
Lin YutangHow many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.
Lin Yutang