Material Things Quotes

“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“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.”
― Germany Kent

“Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.”
― Tim Fargo

“we didn't have much, but we had love.”
― Tyler Perry Author Don't Make a Black Woman Take of her Earrings

“The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself.”
― Karen Kingston, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui: Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever

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

“But here's the thing--no matter how many possessions you have, you never feel secure. As soon as you get one thing, there is always something else you "need".”
― Karen Kingston, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui: Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever

“Suppose you woke up one morning to discover that you were the last person on earth. [...] In the situation described, you could satisfy many material desires that you can't satisfy in our actual world. You could have the car of your dreams. You could even have a showroom full of expensive cars. You could have the house of your dreams - or live in a palace. You could wear very expensive clothes. You could acquire not just a big diamond ring but the Hope Diamond itself. The interesting question is this: without people around, would you still want these things?”
― William B. Irvine, On Desire: Why We Want What We Want

“At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“Purpose, joy and inner peace are the only status symbols worth having.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Here's the thing. No matter how many possessions you have, you never feel secure. As soon as you get one thing, there's always something else you "need". And also, you have the added problem of worrying about losing the stuff you already have. Some of the most insecure people I know are multimillionaires. True security can only come from knowing who you are and what you are here to do.”
― Karen Kingston, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui

“This was the beauty of apparel. A suit transformed you into a certain kind of person. A T-shirt, a different kind of person.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“Changing the external conditions of your lives - earn more money, be in a better physical shape, have another partner or travel more - will not change how you feel. It never works because the emptiness is not around, is within. The only way to come back to life is to acknowledge that little voice rising from your heart and begging you to return to love, to return to truth.”
― Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.

“Thinking of her father, she realized how greatly she had leant on that man of deep kindness, how sure she had felt of his constant protection, how much she had taken that protection for granted. And so together with her constant grieving, with the ache for his presence that never left her, came the knowledge of what real loneliness felt like. She would marvel, remembering how often in his lifetime she had thought herself lonely, when by stretching out a finger she could touch him, when by speaking she could hear his voice, when by raising her eyes she could see him before her. And now also she knew the desolation of small things, the power to give infinite pain that lies hidden in the little inanimate objects that persist, in a book, in a well-worn garment, in a half-finished letter, in a favourite armchair.

She thought: 'They go on—they mean nothing at all, and yet they go on,' and the handling of them was anguish, and yet she must always touch them. 'How queer, this old arm-chair has out-lived him, an old chair—' And feeling the creases in its leather, the dent in its back where her father's head had lain, she would hate the inanimate thing for surviving, or perhaps she would love it and find herself weeping.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“Eternal values are much more everlasting than the temporary physical material things.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Find satisfaction independent of material trappings.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail

“The pursuit of material-external things as if they can provide deep and lasting happiness is contributing to a dwindling of real meaning and is a factor contributing to an increase in mental health problems. It just isn't possible to fill the hole inside us by piling up the things outside us.”
― Stephen McKenzie

“The money he stuffed into the gaping void of family fell limply through to the floor of a mansion he lived in alone.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Always hold on to the material things with open hands" - (G Swiss)”
― G Swiss

“it is good to have wealth. It is great to leave in comfort. It is awesome to obtain possessions but, don't be too eager for material possessions for the same material possessions that bring joy are the same possessions that bring sorrow and pain and also leave a big had I know on our minds”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

“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.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“We're ready to lose any value, if it’s not material.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Objects. Possessions. The material world that we carry around with us, that solders us to events, that outlasts them. The objects with which we manifest love. The possessions with which we possess.”
― Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness

“Then there had been the slowdown; an accumulation, as in sluggish rivers. Things ended up in this house that hadn't been needed in their city life but that they couldn't simply throw out. Layers of sediment, over thirty years of it, had sifted in during springs and summers and falls and springs and summers, and now Nell must dig down through these layers, excavate them, as if the house has been buried under the ash from a volcanic eruption.”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories