Author of quotes: Jose Mujica

Either a person is happy with a small thing, not being in constant search, because his happiness is within him, or he will never be happy.

I can live with what I have. I have been called "the poorest President", but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who work only to maintain an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

My definition of poor is those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

Human nature is amazing. In the end, we learn more through hardship than it is by the abundance. I certainly don't recommend suffering or anything like that. But I would like to make it clear to people that you can always get up. It is always worth starting from scratch, a thousand times, as long as you live. That is the basic message of life. The only losers are those who stopped fighting. To stop fighting is to stop dreaming. To fight, to dream, to walk the earth, to face reality, is the meaning of existence.

People, probably the only animal capable of self-destruction.

Uruguay is a small country. The President has no presidential plane, but he doesn't really need. Instead of the plane we decided to buy from France a very expensive helicopter and put it in the Central part of the country - he serves in order to rescue victims of accidents, to help in emergencies. It's so simple! The presidential plane or a rescue chopper? The whole point of judgment.

I do not advocate a return to the caves or straw huts, not at all. I just to end with extravagance, unnecessary spending, with luxury homes that require half a dozen servants. What is all this? It's too much. It is possible to live more modestly, to allocate funds to things that really are important to everyone. This is the true meaning of Republican ideas that got lost in politics. If we continue with our monarchy, our feudal Lordships, vassals, blowing in horns, when the owners go on a hunt.. We will stay in the middle ages.

We invented the mountain of unnecessary needs, we must constantly buy and throw. So we are wasting our lives. When I buy something or when you buy, you pay no money, and the time of your life - you have to work to earn more and more to buy. But life cannot be bought, it can only spend. And lamentable to spend your life losing your freedom.

I spent over a decade alone in the chamber, seven years I didn't open books I have had time to think. And here is what I found. Either a person is happy with a small, not too loading myself because happiness is within him, or nothing. I am not advocating poverty, and protect the judgment.

My name is Jose Mujica. In the beginning I was a farmer, then began to push for change and improving life in my community. Today I'm the President. And tomorrow, like everyone else, I'll be a lot of larvae and disappear.

We don't just come into this world just to grow up and change. We come into this world to be happy. Because life is short and it slips away from us. No material possessions are not worth a human life, and most importantly.

The richest countries need to pay to eradicate poverty around the world and introduce the world to use only useful things. It's ridiculous how much we waste and how much useless things we produce, and then to bring them into disrepair, when somewhere on the other end of the Earth women need to take five miles to get some fresh water.

We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, the only God of the Market. It controls our economies, politics, our habits and our lives, responsible for our credit cards and currency exchange rates and creates the illusion of happiness. I think we are born only to consume and consume and remain ultimately unsatisfied, in poverty and isolation.

You can always get up, it's worth it to start from scratch or thousands of times in my life. In other words, you don't lose as long as you continue to struggle. And lose when you stop dreaming.