Lin Yutang Quotes About Simplicity

Quotes about: Simplicity

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  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

  Motivational, Time, Art

  "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

• We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Simplicity, Fellow Man

  Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

• I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

  Lin Yutang

  Thinking, Civilization, Simplicity

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

• Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

  Lin Yutang

  Simplicity, Depth, Signs And Symbols

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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