Material Things Quotes - Page 2

• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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

  Karl Marx

  Spiritual, Political, Social

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• I don't like to attach myself to material things.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Materials

  "10 Questions: Jourdan Dunn" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. September 25, 2012.

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

  Sri Aurobindo

  World, Manifestation, Materials

  Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Sri Aurobindo (1992). “Dictionary of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga”, p.155, Lotus Press

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• It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

  Mark Addy

  Nice, Superficial, Materials

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Attitude, Men, Skills

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• Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

  John Ruskin

  Friendship, Men, Long

  John Ruskin (1904). “The works of John Ruskin”

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• If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.

  Oswald Chambers

  Suffering, Exaltation, Alive

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• 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

  Zhuangzi

  Wish, Body, Care

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Missing, Secret

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.198, Rajpal & Sons

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• To measure success with material things is failure!

  Tony Robbins

  Measure Of Success, Materials

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jul 27, 2011

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

  Rob Bell

  Reality, World, Modern

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• In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of Heaven were more real to us, if we lived less for material things and more for things eternal and spiritual, we would be less easily disturbed by this present life.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Real, Views

  Billy Graham (2011). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, p.55, Thomas Nelson

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• Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb's damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities. And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Believe, Writing, Emotional

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• 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.

  Deepak Chopra

  Freedom, Numbers, Boundaries

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• 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.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Ideas, Tangible

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.69, VM eBooks

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• 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.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Children, Self Esteem

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen (2012). “A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul: More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Novelists, Vulnerable

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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• Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by them. It meansputting people ahead of possessions - and seeing material things only as instruments for serving God and the needs of others.

  James Stenson

  Christian, Mean, People

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• Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

  Malcolm D. Lee

  Holiday, Stories, Materials

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.)

  Sophie Scholl

  World, Satisfaction, Hunger

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• Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

  Virginia Woolf

  Intellectual, Materials, Depends

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.141

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

  Alicia Keys

  Life Is, Materials, Happens

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• People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as we desire material things this is all we receive, and we remain spiritually impoverished.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Blessing, Long

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.128, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Attachment, Play

  "A Room of One's Own". Essay by Virginia Woolf (Chapter 3, pp. 43-44), October 24, 1929.

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