The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

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

  2. 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.

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

  4. 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...

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

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