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Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool. — Og Mandino

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

Material things don't matter. — John Catsimatidis

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away. — John Wooden

I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods. — Tommy Lee

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

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form. — John Granger

The Lord's presence always brings blessings. These will not always be material things, for the joy of communing with God is in itself a blessing. — Samuel Ngewa

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries. — David McCullough

In material things, there are seven wonders; in human beings there is only one wonder - and that's you. — Amit Kalantri

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life. — Karl Marx

To be focused on acquiring material things is to forfeit blessings associated with eternal reward — Sunday Adelaja

When your focus on earth is only on material things and earthly blessings you will never be satisfied. — Sunday Adelaja

It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth? — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings. — Tracy Chapman

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material. — Garrison Keillor

The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. — Oscar Wilde

Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell. — Anthony

Material things are no replacement for human, emotional love. — Gary Chapman

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

never let what a man has in material things intimidate him into thinking that man is more of a man than he is. — JaQuavis Coleman

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things. — Richard Flanagan

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word 'poverty' suggests. — Dennis Prager

Material things should complement a good life, not be used as indicators of a good life. — Joan Ambu

Love people. Use things. The opposite never works. — The Minimalists

I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made. — Dirk Nowitzki

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

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. — Tom Ford

I have a sixth sense for things I don't want to know and her manner pegged this as top of the scale ignorance-is-bliss material. — J.F. Lewis

we didn't have much, but we had love. — Tyler Perry

Virtues are worth more than the material things. — Sunday Adelaja

Material things are so vulnerable to the humiliations of decay. There are some I dearly wish might be spared. — Marilynne Robinson

Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget. — Heather Dorff

Material things
are produced by men
and measured in dollars.
Intangible things
are produced by souls
and measured in love. — J.Z. Bingham

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

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things. — Maya Angelou

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

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

The universe is a unity. Every material thing is in all things.
All things come from all, and all is in all things. — John Toland

Find your place. Be happy with what you have. Treat everyone well. Live a good life. It isn't about material things; it's about love. — Vicki Myron Y Bret Witter

This sense of 'place'
that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved. — Eve Babitz

i don't like material things i like the feeling they bring — Anonyumus

As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value. — Matt Damon

Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of. — Charles E. Burchfield

As long as you honour material things, direct your anger at yourself rather than the thief or adulterer. — Epictetus

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval. — Coco Chanel

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

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

There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma. — Gautama Buddha

I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

like all material things, they were not immune to the corruptions of Time and its patient, unsleeping servant, Entropy. — Arthur C. Clarke

There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material. — Walter Lang

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men. — Charles A. Beard

Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles. — Tommy Lee

I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things! — Pope Francis

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things. — Theaster Gates

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

Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you. — Randy Gage

It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory. — Marjorie Garber

Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go. — Romeo Miller

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal. — Bikram Choudhury

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. — Richard L. Evans

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. — Virginia Woolf

After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation. — Nancy Sinatra

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them. — Mahatma Gandhi

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy. — Pope Francis

Don't be content with what you earn, but be content with what you own. Don't allow material things to define who you are. — Bo Sanchez

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is. — Alicia Keys

To measure success with material things is failure! — Tony Robbins

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason. — Immanuel Kant

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute. — Rick Moody

Eternal values are much more everlasting than the temporary physical material things. — Sunday Adelaja

Stop honouring externals, quit turning yourself into the tool of mere matter, or of people who can supply you or deny you those material things. — Epictetus

Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions. — Yoko Ogawa

We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence. — Malcolm D. Lee

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death. — Alexander Crummell

Some things you just can't hide, no matter how thick the material. — Christine Fonseca

Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal ! — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I don't like to attach myself to material things. — Jourdan Dunn

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature. — Drew Endy

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me. — Joe Mansueto

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world. — Sri Aurobindo

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material ... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things. — Ben Shahn

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes. — Kevin Hart

So much is metaphor, an inadequately material way to speak of immaterial things. — Ann Leckie

Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything. — Nnedi Okorafor

Our lust for earthly and material things marks the Genesis of our destruction. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly. — Caryll Houselander

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. — Robert Kennedy

Material things aren't important to me. — Troy Polamalu

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. — Mary Oliver

The best investments are in things you cannot buy. — J.R. Rim

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. — Ludwig Von Mises

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values. — Harry Truman

In Libya, you are made aware the whole time of the abandonment of things, the material leftovers of receding cultures — Ronald Bruce St. John

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value. — Esther Rolle

The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most. — Muhammad Ali