Material Quotes

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

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.

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.

Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.

The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be a solid material world.

In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world.

Material Girl is about having your own personal style, and my personal style reflects the brand's aesthetic.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the universal intellect and the material world.

How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?

Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again.

You can think your self to be great, you can go on thinking your self to be great, till you see all fellow devotees going Back Home Back to Godhead, while you remain in this material world only.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

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.

Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them inpractical fashion.

Don't complicate your life by surrounding yourself with people who see life as a competition about who has the most material possessions.

A very disappointing outcome is always destined to happen to anyone who chases material things in search of happiness.

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw material from which money is made.

Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made.

Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.

I decree and I declare that I am not a raw material but rather a finished product. God knows me and knows the reason for which he created me. I am not here on earth to merely live and depart.

If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!

No level of pleasure from any material possession compares to the feeling of unconditional happiness.

If you find yourself occasionally or constantly pressured by your friends to live a materialistic lifestyle, you should stay clear from them because they are clearly not your true friends.

True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.

I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered, And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before, Suddenly ceasedTo matter.

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.

Given the opportunity of 'Earth-School' enrollment - some are humble enough to learn and grow, stubborn enough to fail and repeat, and wise enough to graduate and never return.

Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming to have what you have.

Time is the raw material from which money is made.

Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.