Yossi Ghinsberg Quotes

No man can lose what he never had.

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

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

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

Material things don't matter.

I don't like possessions.

True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of the happiest people in the world don't have a crying quarter, but they've got all the things that mean a lot to them.

Fear is all the fear of some loss: "I'm going to lose something." If we declare, and if we know in our hearts, "I already have everything that I need: I have life, I have creativity, I have joy, I have nourishment. I have everything I need," and if we just say, "It doesn't depend on my having a physical body to do it," then everything opens up.

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.

I think the philosophy that you have to have if you travel frequently is, stuff is just stuff. Even if it has some sentimental or family connection, if you lose it in the world, it's still just a thing, and I think if you don't have that attitude, you will get incredibly stressed out and not enjoy your travels.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

I am totally unattached to material items.

I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.

As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.

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

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

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

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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.

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.