- Lin Yutang, “The Importance of Loafing,” from his book The Importance of Living (New York, 1938)
22 fevereiro 2017
"Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like..."
“Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all, it makes it possible for us to make up our mind and arrange to live sensibly, truthfully and always with a sense of our own limitations. It gives peace also, because true peace of mind comes from accepting the worst.”
- Lin Yutang, “The Importance of Loafing,” from his book The Importance of Living (New York, 1938)
- Lin Yutang, “The Importance of Loafing,” from his book The Importance of Living (New York, 1938)
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