Thursday, 19 November 2009

Lin Yutang on Hope...

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."

3 comments:

Rebekah said...

I love this!

Anonymous said...

It was actually Lu Xun (also spelled Hsun) who wrote this. It's at the end of the 1921 story "My Old Home," a translation of which is here:

http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/hsun/hsun.htm#Home

Kim

Daniel Jones said...

Thanks for the link Kim. Look forward to reading it.