It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.
Lin YutangA good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
Lin YutangIf one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
Lin YutangIf there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
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