If you have love, you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie’s aphorism reduces the usual measures of “having” (wealth, status, possessions) to something secondary beside love. The first sentence asserts love as a sufficient condition for a meaningful life: with it, other lacks are bearable or even irrelevant. The second reverses the logic—without love, abundance becomes hollow—suggesting that emotional connection and care are what convert mere existence into value. The balanced, antithetical structure (“If you have… / If you don’t…”) gives the thought a proverbial force, aligning with Barrie’s recurring interest in the costs of loneliness and the consolations of affection in both adult and child-centered worlds.