the flame in your heart

 (translation below)

“Yo no soy pobre, pobres son los que creen que yo soy pobre.Tengo pocas cosas, es cierto, las mínimas, pero sólo para poder ser rico”.
“Quiero tener tiempo para dedicarlo a las cosas que me motivan. Y si tuviera muchas cosas tendría que ocuparme de atenderlas y no podría hacer lo que realmente me gusta. Esa es la verdadera libertad, la austeridad, el consumir poco.La casa pequeña, para poder dedicar el tiempo a lo que verdaderamente disfruto. Si no, tendría que tener una empleada y ya tendría una interventora dentro de la casa. Y si tengo muchas cosas me tengo que dedicar a cuidarlas para que no me las lleven. No, con tres piecitas me alcanza. Les pasamos la escoba entre la vieja y yo; y ya, se acabó. Entonces sí tenemos tiempo para lo que realmente nos entusiasma. No somos pobres”  

José Mujica 

"I am not poor, the poor ones are those who believe I'm poor. I have very few things, it's true, the minimal, but only so I can be rich.

I want to have time to dedicate to the things that motivate me. And if I had a lot of thngs I would have to occupy my time attending to them, and I couldn't do what I really like. This is true freedom, austerity, to consume very little. The small house, to be able to dedicate time to what I truly enjoy. If not, I would have to have an employee and I would already have an intervener in the house. And if I had a lot of things I would have to dedicate to taking care of them so they don't them from me. No, with 3 little pieces it's enough. I sweep them with the broom, between my wife and me, and that's it, finished. Then we have time for what we're really enthusiastic about. We are not poor."

José Mujica