Lin Yutang
"“Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.”"
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"“Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.”"
"الحكماء لا ينشغلون، والمنشغلون لا يكونون حكماء."
Lin Yutang
The Importance of Living
"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."
"المسافر الجيد هو من لا يدري إلى أين يمضي، والمسافر الكامل هو من لا يدري من أين أتى."
Lin Yutang
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."
"لا يدرك المرء كم هو جميل السفر إلا حين يعود إلى وطنه ويضع رأسه على وسادته القديمة المألوفة."
Lin Yutang
"Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks."
"إن حياتنا ليست رهن الآلهة، بل رهن طهاتنا."
Lin Yutang
"All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress."
"فساتين النساء كلها ليست سوى تجلياتٍ مختلفة للصراع الأزلي بين الرغبة المعلنة في الستر والرغبة المضمرة في التكشف."
Lin Yutang
"Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks."
"لا يمكن للمجتمع أن يقوم إلا على أساس قدرٍ من الكذب المهذب، وألا يقول أحدٌ ما يفكر فيه بالضبط."
Lin Yutang
"The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."
"إن حكمة الحياة تكمن في إقصاء ما لا يلزم."
Lin Yutang
"Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can."
"قد يكون اكتشاف ما لا يستطيعه المرء أهم أحيانًا من اكتشاف ما يستطيعه."
Lin Yutang
"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought."
"أرى أن هذه هي الوظيفة الكيميائية للفكاهة: أن تُغيّر طبيعة فكرنا."
Lin Yutang
"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."
"الأمل كطريق في الريف؛ لم يكن هناك طريق قط، ولكن عندما يسير عليه الكثيرون، يصبح الطريق حقيقة."
Lin Yutang
"A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind."
"إن الجنازة المهيبة أمر لا يتصوره العقل الصيني."
Lin Yutang
"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."
"راحة البال هي تلك الحالة الذهنية التي تبلغها حين تتقبل أسوأ الاحتمالات."
Lin Yutang
"Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do."
"أحيانًا يكون اكتشاف ما لا يستطيعه المرء أهم من اكتشاف ما يستطيعه."
Lin Yutang
"Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life."
Lin Yutang
"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."
Lin Yutang
"What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?"
Lin Yutang
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."
Lin Yutang
"When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."
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"The wise man reads both books and life itself."
Lin Yutang
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live"
Lin Yutang
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