Buddhism Materialism Quotes

#1. If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

#2. Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and want more, or have questions that their state of prosperity is not answering.

Pankaj Mishra

#3. Take a firm grasp on God's sovereignty and trust His love even when you don't understand His purpose.

Joyce Meyer

#4. We look to the accumulation of sensory pleasures to give our lives meaning. We have the ability now to consume anything we want and this capacity far exceeds our actual needs. With so much at our fingertips, a kind of gluttony pervades our mind-sets.

Mark Epstein

#5. 'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

Norman Lindsay

#6. Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Christopher Morley

#7. Prayer is the link that connects us with God.

A.B. Simpson

#8. Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

A.S. Byatt

#9. The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged.

Rob Liano

#10. May our lives reflect God's love and light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.

Mark Consuelos

#12. The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion.

Zeena Schreck

#13. Well of course people cross genres all the time. You could have something called science-fiction-fantasy. Some galaxy far, far away and in another time with spaceships, but also dragons. And there's no rule that says you can't do that.

Margaret Atwood

#14. Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

Stephen King

#15. The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.

Youth Lagoon

#16. How much does he lack himself who must have many things?

Sen No Rikyu

#17. Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

John Steinbeck

#18. I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other social institutions all around the world, appear on TV, and continue to create music all in the hope to keep the struggle alive.

Chuck D