Quotes by Lyn Yutang

“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”

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

“The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach”

“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.”

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

“Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do”