Wealth Consists Not In Having Great Possessions 1

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”