Lin Yutang
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"Lin Yutang" was a List of Chinese authors/Chinese writer, translator, linguist and inventor. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of Chinese classic texts/classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West.

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

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

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.