Material Things Quotes - Page 6

• My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved.

  Tony Robbins

  Benefits, Life Is, Driven

  Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

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• In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been there, but I'd neglected it. In fashion, that's really easy because we live in the future, and we can place too much importance on material things.

  Tom Ford

  Spiritual, Fashion, Too Much

  "Tom Ford's Tender First Film, A Single Man". Interview with Karen Durbin, www.elle.com. December 11, 2009.

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• We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

  George Santayana

  Names, Goes On, Action

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Character and opinion in the United States. The genteel tradition at bay. Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics. Philosophical heresy”

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• The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an outlet in the espousal of art. Now America has the leisure and the culture to foster beauty.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Art, America, Acquisition

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• The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he 'perceives.

  J. L. Austin

  Men, Expression, Data

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• Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into oneself the reality of the world. No other material thing can be present in the space occupied by a house, a tree, or a fountain pen. But where there is mind, the totality of things has room; it is "possible that in a single being the comprehensiveness of the whole universe may dwell.

  Josef Pieper

  Spiritual, Reality, Space

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• Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Let us steer them away from the harmful chase after material things and the damaging passion for distractions... Let us educate them to stand with their feet rooted in God's earth, but with their heads reaching even into heaven, there to behold truth.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Children, Growing Up, Hard Work

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• I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

  George Harrison

  Men, Thinking, He Man

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an artist is that the dream will never die because I'm not obsessed with material things and don't care about the money and don't care about the attention of the public but only the love of my fans. For me it's about keeping the dream alive of how much more devoted, how much more honest, how much better of an artist can I become? That's the only fear that I ever have, that the dream will die.

  Lady Gaga

  Dream, Artist, Crafts

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• It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.

  Ignatius Bryanchaninov

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of it: for example, for food, or for women, or for riches, or for worldly glory, or any other sensible thing; or for the sake of such things, as in a senseless hatred for someone on account of the things mentioned above.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mean, Denial, Hunger

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

  Alex Campbell

  Political, Economic, Process

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• To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Dance, Men

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• To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Book, Writing

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

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• Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask for money or material things. A third will request liberation or release from his bondage. And the fourth will not ask for anything. He will just enjoy praying and praising his Lord. That is the highest form of prayer. (Beyond Word, 119)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Prayer, Suffering, Progress

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• Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live in a sordid, colorless existence-because you'd soon love less-and less-and I'd do anything-anything-to keep your heart for my own-I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Hate, Heart, World

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• The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Lying, Play

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.7

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• The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the properties of material things, are all known to us as definite systems or groups of objects which cohere in an order fixed by innumerable iterations, and of which any one part reminds us of the others.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Order

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is no substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Inspirational, People, Giving

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• PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Passion, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.189, University of Georgia Press

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• The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

  Khalil Gibran

  Fear, Wine, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Successful living does not mean accumulating material things, it means inner peace of mind; it means that gift of being able to adjust oneself to everyone else; it also means that all your needs for daily living will be taken care of by God.

  Albert E Cliffe

  Life, Taken, Mean

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• The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Giving, Intellectual, Aids

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Generosity is not limited to the giving of material things. We can be generous with our kindness and receptivity. Generosity can mean the simple giving of a smile or extending ourselves to really listen to a friend. Paradoxically, even being willing to receive the generosity of others can be a form of generosity.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Kindness, Mean, Simple

  Gil Fronsdal (2008). “The Issue at Hand”, p.34, Insight Meditation Center

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