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 林玉堂

除了把事情做完的高尚艺术,还有把事情做完的高尚艺术。生活的智慧在于消除不必要的东西。

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The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place which all men dislike.

上善若水,水善利万物而不争。处眾人之所恶,故几於道。

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

记住,最幸福的人不是那些得到更多的人,而是那些付出更多的人。

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

人们出生在难民营里,他们对此感到厌倦。

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

简单不应该与赤裸等同。