{"id":2575,"date":"2021-05-26T13:21:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/slow-down\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:21:48","slug":"slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/slow-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Down!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I've enjoyed Lin Yutang's book The Importance of Living<\/em> for quite some time. Your post today (5\/26) reminded me of a number of quotes from that book. Here's a couple, and a link. He is definitely on the "sunnier side of doubt." (Tennyson)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\u201cBesides 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.\u201d<\/span>
\u2015 Lin Yutang, <\/span>The Importance of Living<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\u201cIf you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live\u201d<\/span>
\u2015 Lin Yutang<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Substack latest ……………………… Dave Bagwill comments: I've enjoyed Lin Yutang's book The Importance of Living for quite some time. Your post today (5\/26) reminded me of a number of quotes from that book. Here's a couple, and a link. He is definitely on the "sunnier side of doubt." (Tennyson) \u201cBesides the noble art of getting … Continue reading “Slow Down!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slow-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}