| Quotes |
Topic |
| Advice | 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. . -Lin Yutang. |
| Contentment | 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. |
| Food | Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. |
| Kindness | 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. |
| Knowledge | 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. |
| Miscellaneous | Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937. |
| Mercy | 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. |
| Government | Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others. |
| Psychological Subjects | Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. |
| Psychological Subjects | No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves. |
| Psychological Subjects | Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought. |
| Psychological Subjects | It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. |
| Psychological Subjects | Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. |
| Psychological Subjects | Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy. |
| Religion | Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them. |
| Religion | It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. |
| Society | Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body. |
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