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"They say I'm the world's poorest president. Let me tell you that I'm not poor! Poor are those who need too much..."

"I discovered the keys to this in the jail cells, when I couldn't read. If I hadn't spent those years there, I wouldn't be who I am, because one learns more from pain than from bounty," he said. "That's why, the night when I had a mattress, I felt happy. How is it possible, therefore, that we spend our lives poisoned with desperation to buy a new car every two years? If I could, I would live much more simply."

- Uruguayan President Jose Mujica (excerpt taken from this recent NPR article, but it was cooler hearing it in his voice on the radio)

It gave me such hope, that a 77 year old man who is president of a country, drives a really, really old Volkswagen Beetle, and washes his own dishes. 

I am so richly blessed.
I don't know why God picked me to have a full belly, and strong, working legs, and a car to drive and a house and family to live with, but I am thankful every day.