The Importance Of Living: Lin Yutang

The charming Chinese philosopher Lin Yutang guides the reader who is accustomed to a passionate pace of life to enjoy the small, everyday gifts of life. He talks lightly of the timeless wisdom of the East and conquers with his irresistible humor. The world is too serious, he thinks, and that’s why it needs a wise and joyful philosophy. He encourages us to laugh at our own futility and be curious about life like a child. With one eye closed and the other open, he sees the futility of everything around him and his own endeavors, yet retains enough sense of reality to understand that he has to try to go through life anyway.