2. The wise read books and experience life.
The value of wisdom lies in teaching people to laugh at themselves.
4. The most important thing to enjoy is mentality.
There are not two big liars in life, but three: fame, profit and power.
6. Civilization can change the way of love, but it can never kill love.
7. The most beautiful time for a woman is when she stands in front of the cradle.
8, life is alive, not sometimes smiling at others, sometimes smiling at others.
9. In a work of art, the most meaningful part is personality beyond skill.
10, in foreign portraits, it is usually when Doby sleeps with a baby on a pillow.
1 1. As long as you say what you really mean, it seems that there are still people in the world who feel the same way.
12, to really understand a person, just look at how he uses his spare time.
13. The ideal person who is most suitable for enjoying life is a passionate, carefree and fearless person.
14, the degree of a person's thorough understanding is exactly equal to the depth of his suffering. -Lin Yutang's My Country and My People
15, I want to have the freedom to be myself and the courage to be myself. -Lin Yutang's My Wish
16, everything you need for life is not expensive and luxurious, but expensive and concise; Not expensive and rich, expensive and elegant; Not expensive, expensive, expensive and appropriate.
17, people who are proud of their feet are always extremely rare, and people who can give life satisfaction are also rare in this world.
18, money can destroy humble people and make noble people brave. -Lin Yutang "Why don't you serve me?"
19, plain and whimsical to the point of application, can become a text between heaven and earth. -Lin Yutang's "Lin Yutang Prose"
20. The first rule of delaying aging and developing youth is to avoid all emotional troubles. -Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo
2 1, all scientific progress, all care about this curiosity. Curiosity is fun, and scientific inventions depend on this interesting word.
We can adopt a relaxed and casual attitude towards life: we are not permanent tenants in this world, but passers-by.
23. Ordinary people can't appreciate the happiness of this earthly life, because they don't love life and make it ordinary, rigid and boring.
24. A scholar is like an eagle. He spits out his food and feeds it to the birds. A thinker is like a silkworm. He vomited silk instead of mulberry leaves.
25. The wisdom of life lies in gradually clarifying and filtering out those unimportant impurities, while retaining the most important part-enjoying family, living culture and nature.
26. Marriage is like a carved ship. It depends on how you appreciate it and how you sail. -Lin Yutang's My Country and My People
27. There is no greater crime of robbery in the world than depriving us of our freedom of thought. -Lin Yutang's The Art of Life
28. Happiness: First, sleep in the bed at home. The second is to eat meals cooked by parents. The third is to listen to your lover's sweet words to you. The fourth is to play games with children.
In the final analysis, we can only know the people we really know, and we can only fully understand the people we really like. -Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo
30. The ideal person is not a perfect person, usually just a loved and reasonable person, and I just try to get close to it.
3 1, people who travel abroad can only entrust their own safety to fate, because there is no other way. -Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo
32, life is just like this, and do it and cherish it. You will always be your own protagonist. Don't always play a supporting role in other people's plays. -Lin Yutang, "Life is just like this"
In the spring of this city, people's hearts are moldy, their wishes have been infected with tuberculosis, tap water has been filled with toxic and hot microorganisms, and catkins have also spread meningitis. -Lin Yutang's "Shi Tian and Dong Fangshuo"
Reading or enjoying books has always been regarded as an elegant thing in a cultivated life, but it is something worthy of respect and jealousy in the eyes of some people who rarely have the opportunity to enjoy this right. -Lin Yutang's The Art of Life
Su Dongpo is dead, and his name is just a memory. But what he left us was inner joy and ideological joy, which is immortal. -Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo
36. Su Dongpo is clever on big issues, but confused on small ones. But life is often made up of many small things, while big things are few and long-lasting. -Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo
37. China's noblest ideal is that a person can keep his original happiness without escaping from human society and life. -Lin Yutang's The Art of Life
38. The freedom of the soul is indeed related to the freedom of the body. If a person can't control his body and mind, he can't control his soul. -Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo
39. When I was alive, I felt I didn't know anything when I was young, I felt I knew everything when I was in college, I knew I didn't know anything when I graduated, I felt I knew everything when I was in middle age, and I didn't realize I didn't know anything until later in life.
40. Life is a dream. Man is like a passenger, sailing along the eternal river of time in a small boat. Get on the boat at one place and go ashore at another place so that other passengers waiting on the river can get on the boat.
4 1. There are no books in the world that anyone must read, but books that must be read at a certain time and place, in a certain environment and in a certain period of life. I think reading, like marriage, is doomed by fate or yin and yang. -Lin Yutang's The Art of Life
42. China people believe in Confucianism when they are proud, and Taoism and Buddhism when they are frustrated. When their teachings are contrary to their own, China people will say that "man can conquer nature". The crisis of China people's faith lies in their frequent conversion.
43. Without humor, people's culture will become more and more hypocritical, people's lives will become more and more fraudulent, people's thoughts will become more and more pedantic, people's literature will become more and more dry, and people's hearts will become more and more stubborn. -Lin Yutang's "One Night Talk"
44. The purpose of writing poetry is not to write immortal masterpieces. A person writes poetry only to record a meaningful moment, or to record personal feelings and help people enjoy nature.
45. There are such a strange group of people in China. They are the lowest class. Their interests are being harmed every day, but they have the consciousness of the ruling class. It is almost impossible to find such a retarded thing in the animal world.
46, love spring, but too young. I love summer, but I am too arrogant. So I love autumn best, because the leaves in autumn are golden, mature and colorful, but with a hint of sadness and death.
47. Art should be a kind of satirical literature, a warning to our numb feelings, dead thoughts and unnatural life. It teaches us to be simple and sincere in a pretentious world.
48. I think wisdom lies in knowing clearly what we are not-for example, we are not gods-and an attitude of being willing to face real life. In other words, wisdom includes wisdom and common sense of life.
49. It is certainly much cheaper to enjoy a leisurely life than a luxurious one. It is only the artist's temperament to enjoy a leisurely life and spend an idle afternoon in a completely leisurely mood.
50. Life is a dream. Man is like a passenger, sailing along the eternal river of time in a small boat. Get on the boat at one place and go ashore at another place so that other passengers waiting on the river can get on the boat.
5 1, women have superior common sense than men, so I am always more willing to trust women's judgment when any accident happens. They have the ability to care about the integrity of things without being confused by other parts.
A writer's pen is like a shoemaker's cone. The more times you use it, the sharper it will be, and it will be as sharp as a sewing needle later. But his concept will be more and more extensive, just like a person's mountaineering and sightseeing. The higher he climbs, the farther he sees.
53. The most sincere and solemn time is when she is holding a baby or taking a walk with a child of four or five years old; The happiest time, as I saw in a western portrait, was when I was holding a baby and sleeping on a pillow to tease.
I once said that China people's concept of happiness is "warm, full, dark and sweet"-that is, the scene of going to bed after eating a hearty dinner. A China poet once said: "The heart is full of beautiful things; The rest are extravagant. "
55. An ancient book allows readers to face the ancient people who have been sleeping for a long time. When he goes on reading, he will imagine what kind of form and person the ancient writer was. Mencius and the great historian Sima Qian both expressed this view.
56. A person's manners are polite, measured, patient and cultured, all of which are cultivated in the family. A person who loves the world but can't get along well with his parents can be said to be a very uncomfortable person. Because even in the most intimate relationship, he can't learn to adapt.
57. Only a happy philosophy is a truly profound philosophy; I think those serious philosophical theories in the west have not yet begun to understand the true meaning of life. In my opinion, the only function of philosophy is to make us have a more relaxed and happy attitude towards life than ordinary businessmen.
58. A professor at China Modern University once said a quip: A wife is good to others, but an article is good to herself. In this sense, no one in the world will feel absolutely satisfied. Everyone wants to be someone else, as long as this other person is not who he is now.
59. If we have knowledge but can't understand, criticize but can't appreciate, have beauty but no love, have truth but no passion, have justice but no compassion, be polite but not warm, what a poor world this world will become!
60. All animals seem to be happy, because their needs are met by nature, otherwise they will be eliminated by nature. Because human beings have more complicated needs and want to explore the purpose of life. This insatiable desire is the biggest reason why human beings cannot be happy.
6 1, I am so opposed to independence * * just because they are inhuman. Because unfriendly people are always bad. Religion without humanity is not religion; Unreasonable politics is stupid politics, and inhuman art is bad art; An inhuman life is an animal life.
If I can choose to be one of the writers in the world, I would rather be Andersen. Being able to write the story of mermaid, thinking about the thought of female mermaid, and eager to surface when I grow up, is really the deepest and most wonderful happiness that human beings feel.
63. Those who are capable, intelligent, ambitious and arrogant, but also the most cowardly and confused, lack the courage, depth and intelligence of humorists. They are always dealing with trivial things. They don't know that a more open-minded humorist can cope with great things.
64. The most beautiful time for a woman is when she stands in front of the cradle; The most sincere and solemn time is when she is holding a baby or taking a walk with a child of four or five years old; The happiest time, as I saw in a western portrait, was when I was holding a baby and sleeping on a pillow to tease.
Looking back on his life, a person may feel that what he did in his life was successful or not good enough. When old age comes, no matter what, he has the right to rest, to live a comfortable life, to enjoy family happiness with his children and grandchildren in a close family, and to enjoy the best fruits between people. ...
We like old churches, old furniture, old dictionaries and old books, but most people forget the beauty of the elderly. This kind of beauty is worthy of our appreciation, and it is also very necessary in life. I think ancient things, perfect things and things that have changed a lot are the most beautiful things.
67. The insignificance of life in the universe is like China's landscape paintings. In landscape painting, the nuances of the landscape are not easy to see, because they have disappeared into the blank of water and sky. At this moment, two small figures are sitting on a boat on the sparkling river in the moonlight. From that moment on, the reader was lost in that atmosphere.
68. Finding a small pearl in the ashes is more pleasant than seeing a big pearl in the window of a jewelry store. -Lin Yutang's The Art of Life
69. Anyone who talks about the truth will harm the truth instead; Anyone who tries to prove that it is disabled will distort it; Anyone who puts a sign on it and identifies a school will kill it instead; Anyone who claims to believe it will bury it. So a truth, when it was erected into a system, has died three times and been buried three times.
70. In a world without women, there must be no manners, customs, religions, traditions and social classes. There is no man who is naturally polite, and there is no woman who is naturally rude. Suppose there were no women, we wouldn't live in the same alley, but in a house with triangular doors and windows and an octagonal bathtub, and we didn't know the difference between a restaurant and a bedroom. Men like to eat in the bedroom and sleep in the dining room. -Lin Yutang's Physiology of Jin Shengtan
7 1. Life is cruel. A warm, generous and affectionate person may be easily fooled by clever companions. People who are generous by nature often have wrong ideas because of generosity, and often get lost because they are too lenient with their enemies or trust their friends too much. ..... Life is harsh, and a warm heart is not enough to cope with the environment. Enthusiasm must be associated with wisdom and courage to avoid damaging the environment.
72. A real traveler must be a wanderer, experiencing the happiness, temptation and exploration ideas of a wanderer. Travel must be vagrancy, otherwise it is not travel. The main points of travel are no responsibility, no time, no communication, no curious neighbors, no visitors and no destination. A good traveler never knows where he is going. What's better, he doesn't know where he comes from. He even forgot his own name.
73. Many women like to imitate men's behavior, which is a symbol of women's bondage. Only when she is proud of being a woman can she be truly great.
The word "degradation" is often misunderstood because only comparison makes sense. Since the invention of buckets and vacuum cleaners, people have been judging a person's character by cleanliness. It is believed that bathing the dog every week and putting it in winter clothes means that the dog's level has improved. In fact, if a dog can only bark but not bite, it can only be regarded as a degenerate wolf when it is taken as a pet in the street.
75. People are all similar in their bones, so touching things in one country will also touch people all over the world. Humans often forget their own smallness and incompetence. When a person sees a hundred-story building, he often feels conceited. The best way to cure this unbearable conceit is to imagine that by moving this skyscraper to a hill, we can develop a true view of what "greatness" is.
76. It is important for human beings to dream, and sometimes it is equally important to laugh at their dreams. Writing skills are to literature what dogma is to the church-all trivial things are concerned by trivial minds. If people can look at life with poetic eyes, they may regard the sunset period in their lives as the happiest period. He will not try to delay the arrival of old age, but will actively look forward to it, making old age the best and happiest period in his life.
Of course, a natural person will love his children, but only those who are influenced by culture will be filial to their adoptive parents. Many great teachers in the world, their personalities seem to be more influential than their knowledge. When we think of Socrates or San Francesco or assisi, it is not because they wrote great works, but because they had a great influence on later generations. Confucius' sentiment is very similar to Socrates', and Plato's love and reverence for the latter is proof of Socrates' personality and ideological influence.
78. If a person reads with a sense of obligation, he will not understand the art of reading. This kind of reading with compulsory purpose is just like reading documents and reports before a senator gives a speech. This is not reading, but seeking business reports and news. -Lin Yutang's The Art of Life
79. It is easy to carry forward the past and describe the future, but it is difficult to look back on the present and gain the light and understanding of the future. Because there is a valley between the glorious past and the possible future. If you want to cross it, you have to fall first and then rise. -Lin Yutang's My Country and My People
80. There is no suitable time and place to study. When a person is in the mood to study, he can study anywhere. If he knows the fun of reading, he will read whether in or out of school, whether there is a school in the world or not. He can even study in the best schools. -Lin Yutang's The Art of Life
8 1. Dad often tells me that he has witnessed the rise of many poor families and the decline of many rich families. He told me that the most important thing is not to rely on money. People should enjoy wealth and prepare for life when they lose it. -Lin Yutang's Clouds in Beijing
82. The world is the only paradise. We all believe that people will die, and I think this feeling is very good. It makes us awake, makes us sad, and makes some people poetic. It enables us to strengthen our will and find a reasonable and true way of life. It makes us feel calm. Only when one is prepared to accept the worst can one obtain real peace. -Lin Yutang's The Art of Life
83. Let me be friends with flowers and trees and make a blind date with the soil, and I will be satisfied. My soul crawls comfortably in the soil and feels very happy. When a person is intoxicated with this land, his heart seems to be relaxed, just like in heaven. In fact, his six-foot body, why not leave the soil inch by inch?
84. Reading gives people a kind of elegance and charm, which is the whole purpose of reading, and only reading with this purpose can be called art. The purpose of reading is not to "improve one's mind", because when one starts to improve one's mind, all the fun of reading is lost. -Lin Yutang's The Art of Life
85. Whoever tells the truth will hurt it; Anyone who tries to prove that it is disabled will distort it; Anyone who puts a sign on it and identifies a school will kill it instead; Anyone who claims to believe it will bury it. So a truth, by the time it was erected into a system, had died three times and been buried three times-Lin Yutang's The Art of Life.
86. The enjoyment of nature is not limited to art and pictures. The nature presented to us is complete, including all sounds/colors/spirits and atmosphere. People choose the spirit of nature as an artist to understand life and integrate it with their own spirit. This is the attitude of all China literati with knives. -Lin Yutang's The Art of Life
87. Happy philosophy: Only a happy philosophy is a truly profound philosophy; I think those serious philosophical theories in the west have not yet begun to understand the true meaning of life. In my opinion, the only function of philosophy is to make us have a more relaxed and happy attitude towards life than ordinary people. -Lin Yutang's The Art of Life
88. Become a free and happy person without violating the way of heaven and earth. It's like a play, in which an excellent actor knows it is false, but he can express himself more truly, naturally and happily than in real life. Life is the same. The most important thing for us is not to care about truth and falsehood, gain and loss, fame and fortune, dignity and wealth, but how to live happily and find the poetry of life from it. To some extent, the imperfection of life is normal, while the perfection is abnormal, just like the truth that "there are fewer full moons, but more months are lacking". If we understand life in this way, we will soon become more enlightened and comfortable, and our distress and depression will go with the wind. -Lin Yutang, "Life is just like this"
Because of all kinds of fake literature, I don't read other people's articles recently, but only look at their behavior. It seems unreasonable to confuse morality with articles in this way, but there are still differences. The quality of literary creation is the standard, but theoretical literature depends on whether the person can speak and act. I despise Ruan Dacheng, but I can still like his swallows. This is equivalent to saying that my cook has committed adultery and his snacks may be delicious.
90. The poems of West Lake are not as wonderful as those of Su Dongpo. Su Dongpo's poetic thought is not enough unless he meets the West Lake. In a city, it is not easy for poets to find the complicated locality of their lives; It is not easy for a poet to express the essence, weather and beautiful scenery of this place in just four lines. -Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo
9 1, born below 100, Ann can wipe tears for others. Life is like this, do it and cherish it. You will always be your own protagonist. Don't always play a supporting role in other people's plays. Only by raising one's own realm to a higher level can one not be sad because of the recent depression, but will always struggle with it and cannot let it go. Again, that's a good sentence. People are sad because they don't see far enough. Before the future comes, how do we know that the so-called predicament now is not a good thing? People should look forward, look forward. Especially feelings, there is no need to entangle right and wrong, because there is no right and wrong.
92. Su Dongpo lived a noble life. A person's life is also the life of the soul. This kind of power forms a person's occupational character. This kind of character comes with life and is manifested through the experiences in life. As Su Dongpo said in Chaozhou Hanwen Gongci Monument: "The noble spirit stands upright but invisible, does not rely on strength, does not wait for life, and does not die, so it is a star in the sky, a river prison on the ground, a ghost in seclusion, and a man of the Ming Dynasty. This is normal and there is nothing to blame. " -Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo
When it comes to Su Dongpo, we can't avoid the word "qi". Because every literary critic should use the word "qi" said by Mencius to summarize Su Dongpo's personality. "Qi" is an ordinary word, which is the qi, qi, atmosphere, spirit, energy, movement and anger in my heart. In Mencius' view, "Qi" is a philosophical concept, which is similar to Bergson's "vitality" and is the "vitality" of personality. What distinguishes great men from ordinary people is often the difference in energy and vitality. In Mencius' philosophy, "Qi" is a great moral motivation, or, more simply, a noble spirit that everyone has and is born to pursue goodness and justice. People live in the world, and this "qi" can be strengthened because of its cultivation of nutrition, or weakened because of its reduction. -Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo
94. Occasionally, their boat passes by an isolated hut, only to see the hut standing on its side, carrying the blue sky, and sometimes to see the woodcutter chopping wood. Look at the hut standing there alone, which proves that the people living there must be down and out. The small roof is only covered with boards, not tiles. Su Dongpo was thinking about the hardships of life when he suddenly caught a glimpse of an eagle hovering in the sky so leisurely, as if he were not worried about tomorrow at all, so he thought to himself, is it worth letting civilized life be shackled for fame and fortune? The goshawk flying in the sky is only a symbol of the human spirit after liberation. -Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo
95. Su Dongpo can be happy and satisfied everywhere because he holds this humorous view. Later, he was banished to Qiongya Island outside China, where there were no doctors or medicines. He told a friend: "I am glad that countless people died at the hands of doctors every time I studied in the capital." -Lin Yutang's Biography of Su Dongpo
96. Our national luck is in an eventful autumn. Whether it is a country's life or an individual's life, it will reach a period full of early autumn spirit, with green, yellow and brown, sadness and joy, and hopefully memories. At this time of life, the innocence of spring has become a memory, and the lush echo of summer is lingering. We look forward to life. The problem is not how to grow up, but how to live sincerely, not how to work hard, but how to enjoy the precious time left, not how to waste physical strength, but how to save physical strength and prepare for the winter. Consciously have reached a certain position, calm down and find the goal you are pursuing. I have also made some achievements consciously, which are insignificant compared with the past glory, but they are worth cherishing, just like autumn lost its summer glory, but it still retains its cold-resistant toughness. -Lin Yutang's My Country and My People
97. I like spring, but it is too young; I like summer, but it's too proud. Therefore, I like autumn best, because the leaves in autumn are only light yellow, soft and rich in color, and they are also infected with a trace of sadness and ominous signs. What its golden color wants to say is not the innocence of spring, nor the fierceness of summer, but the wisdom of prudence and kindness. It knows that life is limited, so it is satisfied. Because it knows that life is limited and rich in experience, it is painted with unparalleled colors: green symbolizes life and strength, orange symbolizes satisfactory satisfaction, and purple symbolizes obedience and death. The moon shines on it, reflecting the moonlight, and the treetops look pale. However, when the sunset caresses it and the afterglow illuminates the treetops, it can still smile. In the morning, the mountain wind blew, and the shriveled leaves danced happily to the ground. You don't know whether the songs of fallen leaves are laughter or farewell lamentations. Because this is the spirit of early autumn, that is, the spirit of calmness, wisdom and maturity, which can face sadness with a smile and appreciate the cold wind that makes people awake-this is the spirit of autumn. -Lin Yutang's My Country and My People
98. I have always believed that the purpose of life is to really enjoy life. We know that it is good to die and finally go out like candlelight. This makes us calm, but a little melancholy; Many people make their lives full of poetry. But most importantly, although we know that life is limited, we are still determined to live wisely and honestly.
99, China is such a group of people, for a few rubles, at the expense of selling the interests of their country and nation, selling their traitors in the newspaper, armed to defend the Soviet Union, and supporting the Mongolian people to be masters of their own affairs. There are almost no such animals in the animal kingdom. -Lin Yutang's "One Night Talk"
100, children have their own beginnings; Some haven't started yet, some haven't revealed yet, and some haven't even had such a thing as "the reason for starting"; Some say that words are true, some say that words are nothingness, some never argue whether words are true or nothingness, and some even never think that words are true or nothingness. But the concept of "whether words are real or nothingness" suddenly came into being, with words and without words: which are these two? -Lin Yutang's The Wisdom of Laozi