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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material. — Cathy Guisewite

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science. — Charles Lindbergh

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl ... or boy. — Adam Sandler

You are an immaterial girl living in a material world. — Neil Gaiman

Life really is the chance to experience the material world in whatever form desired. — Steven Redhead

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Success originates in the mind and translates into the material world. — Richard Carlson

I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit. — Paul Russo

There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception. — Tarek Saab

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be. — Wayne Dyer

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl. — Madonna Ciccone

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. — Patti Smith

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there. — Peter Thomas Bauer

If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn't deplete us to give. — Sharon Salzberg

The world is only the visible aspect of God. And that what alchemy does is to bring spiritual perfection into contact with the material plane. — Paulo Coelho

What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material? — Josiah Strong

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand. — Cormac McCarthy

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement. — Thomas Hoving

Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book. — Patti Smith

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world. — Faraaz Kazi

Small world, huh?"
She grinned lewdly. "Not particularly. I'd say you've just run out of material. — Armistead Maupin

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes. — Patti Smith

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. — E.F. Schumacher

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it ... — Erwin Schrodinger

The material world, as conceived by materialists, however, is continually confused with reality as such. — William A. Dembski

Only when awe of God rules your heart will you be able to keep the pleasures of the material world in their proper place. — Paul David Tripp

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world. — Richard Dawkins

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

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

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. — Robert Quillen

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action. — Ellen Swallow Richards

My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material. — Alison Moyet

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet, — E. O. Wilson

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality
itself. — Stanislav Grof

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever. — Michael Poeltl

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. — Wassily Kandinsky

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance. — Imelda Marcos

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

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

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world. — Kiki Smith

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To live well - to live within your means and to avoid the seduction of the material world. That is what I call prospering. — Jennifer L. Scott

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. — Joseph Joubert

The material world will always attract a lot of women. A lot of people would be down for that, whatever the cost. — William Moseley

Without the time, the world is only a static material; without the sense, the world is only a dead living system — CG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=

We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them. — Deborah Ellis

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. — Phillips Brooks

With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more. — Ken Follett

Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects. — Jose Cipriano De La Luz Y Caballero

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hey. It's a material world. And I'm a material girl." Nancy took another swig of rum. — Roy Segal

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

World's definition of success
material validation of self
cold and naked substitute
for inner warmth and beauty. — David W. Earle

For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design. — Jonathan Schell

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important. — Alan Moore

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

The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth. — Gwendoline Christie

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias. — Vikram Seth

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds. — Manuel De Landa

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. — Muriel Rukeyser

minimize your material-world concerns and to put more of your energy into the essence of life, which is love and service. — Wayne W. Dyer

As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material. — Scott Adams

It was in the nature of this sacrifice that it should appear to be pointless in the normal world, the world of material success. — Viktor E. Frankl

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. — Meryl Streep

For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The material world claims, 'I am what I think', whereas spiritualism says, 'I am, therefore I think'. — Gian Kumar

now i am old
older enough to have known the world
and i am sad — Roseville Nidea

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours? — Arthur Schopenhauer

The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran. — Richard Fadden

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. — Simone De Beauvoir

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

Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
The subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure — Sting

The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl. — Frederick Lenz

Bread cannot feed the addicts of beauty. — Raheel Farooq

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth. — Chris Matakas

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand. — Beatrix Potter

Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world. — Charles Frazier

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

The doctrine of laisser-faire will not work in the material world. — E. M. Forster

Why do men create suffering for others and fight over material wealth? Naked we come into the world, naked will go out of the world. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there. — Alan Garner

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts. — Jok Church

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi. — Mark Rothko

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

Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence. — Julianne Davidow

I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been. — Russell Peters

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world. — Deepak Chopra

The material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything! — Leslie Marmon Silko

The material world may be nothing but illusion ... — Anodea Judith

I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world — Ashly Lorenzana

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material. — William M. Evarts

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

Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help. — Frederick Lenz

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

It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world. — Romany Malco

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Rich in material, but Devoid of Knowledge is like having an antique Clock with no numbers. Appealing to the eye, but Useless in the modern world. — Andrea L'Artiste

If you think something in the material world can provide you with lasting happiness then lasting happiness will never be yours. — D.S. Luca