Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

Very few things in life matter.

I am totally unattached to material items.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

Material things don't matter.

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

I'm not a guy who's about the material things.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

To have little is to possess.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.

How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.