Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
Lin YutangRead
True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.
Interpretation
True peace is achieved by accepting negative outcomes and letting go of anxiety.
This quote emphasizes that true mental tranquility is not about avoiding difficulties or negative situations but rather about acknowledging and accepting the worst possible outcomes. By releasing the fear and anxiety associated with these situations, one can achieve a deeper sense of peace and clarity.
In practice
In a motivational speech to help others find peace in uncertainty.
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who'd ever fought for my rights.
No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.
Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.
I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
The struggle ends when the gratitude begins. The search is over when the finding starts. And the finding is not a finding at all, but a creating. You cannot find what you have been struggling for, but you can create it. And the jump-start of creation is gratitude.
Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.
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