Lukas Forchhammer Quotes

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

I'm happy without money.

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

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

I don't need much to be happy.

I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

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

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

I really don't require a whole lot in life.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

I prefer to stay poor.