The World Motivation
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”
— Lin Yutang · Home
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighbourhood. From this prison there is no escape. But the moment he takes up a book, he immediately enters a different world, and if it is a good book, he is immediately put in touch with one of the best talkers of the world. This talker leads him on and carries him into a different country or a different age, or unburdens to him some of his personal regrets, or discusses with him some special line or aspect of life that the reader knows nothing about. An ancient author puts him in communion with a dead spirit of long ago, and as he reads along, he begins to imagine what the ancient author looked like and what type of person he was.
Bay windows are big and beautiful and will open up a home far more than a normal window. There's more glass on show and the shape projects across three planes. This lets in so much sought-after sunlight and offers excellent views up and down the street - it's why bay windows are so popular.
The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
The more it looks like home, the more I feel like people are understanding my accent.