Adrianne Lenker Quotes

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

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.

I am a man who has made a great deal of money, and I haven't got a great deal. This is because I give it no value, and a certain Christian precept is something to be lived by, and so forth.

People who truly have money don't need to go around talking about it. God can take it from you as quick as he gave it to you, and people need to remember that!

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Who would you be without the thought "I need more money to be safe?" You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.

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

He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.

You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.

The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.