How many things can I do without?

For he is not poor who has little; only he that desires much … and true security lies not in the things one has but in the things one can do without.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is

"Schopenhauer said: "We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.

I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values.

They who can go without all things, not needing them, are far more blessed than they who possess them in their need. That person is the best who can do without what they do not need.

Instead of focusing on the efforts and resources we need to add, the Essentialist focuses on the constraints or obstacles we need to remove.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

من النادر أن نفكر فيما نملك بل نحن نفكر فيما ينقصنا

If you want to have useful thoughts, here’s a rule of thumb: Only think about things you can control. That automatically eliminates about 99% of your thoughts because there’s very little you control in life.

Are there things we can weed out that we don’t need?

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

What we do with what we have tends to be far more important than what we have in the first place.