Simple happiness

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

When you fall in love with the process rather than the outcome, you don’t have to wait to be happy.

instead of tracking every purchase, I’ve landed on something simpler: a money audit. not monthly. not daily. just a quarterly check to make sure I’m directionally correct.

here’s a silly little analogy for the way I think about the role of money in my life: money is the gas in my car. it’s not in the driver's seat, and it’s not yelling instructions from the passenger seat. it fuels what I do, it’s necessary, and I need to be aware of it (insert my gas meter that is perpetually below E). but I don’t need (or want) to... See more

The pursuit of more has displaced the question of what it is for. And when a civilization forgets to ask that question, it continues to advance in technique while it declines in wisdom.