Lin Yutang

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Lin Yutang

I grew up in a Chinese pastor's household in Fujian and ended up writing bestsellers in New York about why you should do less. If I had been more efficient, none of this would have happened.

Lin Yutang

·1937·New York, USA

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Lin Yutang

·1937·New York, USA

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.