Og Mandino Quotes

I am totally unattached to material items.

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

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

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

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

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

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.

Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

I'm really not a materialistic person.

In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same. Anything in excess of needs is burdensome to me. You couldn't give me anything I don't need. I am penniless, but have difficulty remaining so. Several of my well meaning, well-to-do friends have offered me large sums of money, which I of course refused.

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.

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

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.

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

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.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

With renunciation life begins.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

My material life is simple.