The more we possess the less we have.

The more we have the less we own.

The more we own the less we have.

Indeed, the more we are our own possession, the less we are God’s possession.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

The more you know, the less you are.

For what is yours is mine, and mine is yours.

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

And what was glory but something that reduced the more there were of you to share it?

One half of me is yours, the other half is yours,
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.

Less, less of self each day,
And more, my God, of Thee!

as you get older, the amount of the known gets smaller

The more you've found, the less you've been around.