José “Pepe” Mujica

“And tomorrow, like everyone, I’ll be a pile of worms and disappear.”

“Either you’re happy with very little, free of all that extra luggage, because you have happiness inside, or you don’t get anywhere! I am not advocating poverty. I am advocating sobriety.”

“We have invented a mountain of superfluous needs. Shopping for new, discarding the old. That’s a waste of our lives! When I buy something, or you buy something, you’re not paying money for it. Your paying with the hours of life you had to spend earning that money. The difference is life is one thing money can’t buy. Life only gets shorter. And it is pitiful to waste one’s life and freedom that way.”

“What I do recommend is that we stop wasting resources on useless things, on luxuries houses that require six servants to maintain. What good is all that? What good is it? None of that is necessary. We can live much more modestly. We can spend our resources on things that are really important for everyone.”

José “Pepe” Mujica
former President of Uruguay
Photo’s source:
http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/02/150227_uruguay_mujica_10_frases_irm

“Man may very well be the only animal capable of self-destruction.”

“Human nature is constructed in such a way that you end up learning much more from suffering than form a life of ease. That does not mean that I recommend a quest for suffering, or anything like that. But this is what I want to make people understand: You can always pick yourself up again. It’s always worth it starting from zero again, once, or a thousand times, as long as you’re still alive. That’s the biggest lesson in life. In other word, you are not defeated until you give up the fight. You give up the fight by giving up the dream. Fighting, dreaming, being down on the ground, confronting reality that’s what gives meaning to existence, to the lives we lead.”

“You can’t live life when you nurse a grudge. And you can’t live going in circles.”

“You have to learn to pack up your scars and keep going, headed for the future. If I spend my time licking my wounds, I’m not moving forward. I see life as the road that lies ahead. What counts is tomorrow.”