Material Wealth Quotes

• Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.12, New World Library

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• Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love You, Positivity, Validation

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• I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

  Colin Farrell

  Philosophy, Mean, Hardship

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  We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, Country, Power

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• To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

  John Templeton

  Giving, Joy, Spiritual Happiness

  John Templeton (1998). “The Humble Approach: Scientists Discover God”, p.122, Templeton Foundation Press

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• Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.

  William E. Simon

  Passion, Commitment, Generosity

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• Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .

  John Templeton

  Happiness, Happy, Spiritual

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• How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

  Tony Judt

  Generations, Wealth, Obsessed

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.30, Penguin

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• The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

  Herbert Read

  Military, Artist, Civilization

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

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• When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest.

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, Loving Life, Light

  "A L’Arche Serving of Love in Kolkata" by Rumni Saha, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of all, as well as the material wealth of some.

  Joseph LeConte

  Spiritual, Truth, Science

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• If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.

  Jean Vanier

  People, Want, Poor

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• It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Money, Freedom

  "Principles of Social Reconstruction". Book by Bertrand Russell, 1917.

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• ... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Bible, Money

  "Parents still tell kids to save money. That's really obsolete". Interview with Nastassia Arendse, citizen.co.za. March 8, 2017.

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• Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.12, New World Library

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• I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.

  Zhang Xin

  Ambition, Heart, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.

  Deepak Chopra

  Success, Spiritual, Emotional

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.9, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

  Ai Weiwei

  Democracy, Soil, Wealth

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• We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis as absolute as that of the poorest nations. We have attempted to deny the human condition in our quest for power after power. It would be well for us to rejoin the human race, to accept our essential poverty as a gift, and to share our material wealth with those in need.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Race, Special, Essentials

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• A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Loss, Grandchildren, Ideas

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.117, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Passion, Able, Architecture

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• With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.

  Debra Granik

  Country, Self Worth, People

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

  Og Mandino

  Wise, Men, Satisfaction

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope”, p.149, Bantam

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• The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Military, Character, Israel

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• I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Land, Community, Way

  Helena Norberg-Hodge (2017). “Ancient Futures, 3rd Edition”, p.172, Chelsea Green Publishing

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