One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life.
Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.
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.
The best things in life aren't things.
The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most
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.
Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.
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.
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.
I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.
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.
No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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.
If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
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.
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.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.
I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.
The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
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