Material Things Quotes

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

  Leon Brown

  Life, Positive Thinking, Mean

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• The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  Vanilla Ice

  Family And Friends, No Friends, Lessons

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

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

  Pope Francis

  Unhappy, Way, Seeking Happiness

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

  Richard L. Evans

  Inspirational, Children, Teaching

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

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• I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

  David Rockefeller

  Friendship, Family, Money

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

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• The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Character, Legacy

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• I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Loyalty, Talking, Good Relationship

  "Are Jennifer Lopez And Casper Smart On The Rocks?". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.foxnews.com. October 15, 2013.

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• There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Greed, Want

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.202, Univ of California Press

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• You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

  Mitch Albom

  Inspirational, Life, Substitutes

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Mar 13, 2017

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• Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.

  Henry Ford

  Life, Success, Goal

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

  Eartha Kitt

  People, Stressed, Nonsensical

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

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Men, Earth, Wealth

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

  James A. Forbes

  Spiritual, Energy, Aspect

  "9/12: What Now?" by Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2011.

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• Success has to be an inside job. Happiness does not come from external material things. Even people don't make us ultimately happy. It's how we choose to deal with those things that happen in our lives that matters.

  Demi Moore

  Jobs, People, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Pope Francis

  Slave, Materials, Our Lives

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• The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Lying, Mind, Suffering

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