Lin Yutang

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

— Lin Yutang

#life

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

#besides #consists #done #elimination #getting

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#life

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#beautiful #comes #familiar #head #his

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#business

The wise man reads both books and life itself. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#both #itself #life #man #reads

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ↗

— Lin Yutang

#food #patriotism #food

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#chinese-philosopher #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #wise #business

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#change #character #chemical #conceive #function

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#happiness #philosophy-of-life #life