If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
Lin YutangNow it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.
Lin YutangMen resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.
Lin YutangOf all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.
Lin YutangI like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.
Lin Yutang