Material Things Quotes

Material Things Quote of the day

One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)

Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.

My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved.

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.

Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.

There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma.

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things!

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

Material things aren't important to me.

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for

To measure success with material things is failure!

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful.

What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.

I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more precious. You own yourself.