Acquiring Things Quotes

• Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

  Wayne Dyer

  Cheating, Money, Abundance Of Love

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

  Mike Tyson

  Losing Everything, Life Is, Thoughts On Life

  "Tyson can't beat Father Time" by Chuck Johnson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 12, 2005.

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• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Afternoon, Paid

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.

  Lauren Bacall

  Home, Eye, Trying

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• Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Purpose, Discovering, Following

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• Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Success, Real

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things . . . which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising

  Edward Norton

  Happiness, Spiritual, Laughter

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• How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

  Clarice Lispector

  Mean, Men, Ties

  Clarice Lispector (1990). “Near to the Wild Heart”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Passion, Important, World

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