Happiness Materialism Quotes

#1. I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

Martin Compston

#2. Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. The successful cannot be unhappy
it was a contradiction in terms.

Barry Unsworth

#4. Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think.

Mabel Katz

#5. My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.

Dawna Markova

#6. Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Andrei Platonov

#7. We have too quickly bought into the lie that we'll be happier with more - and as a result, too often miss the joy that comes from owning less.

Joshua Becker

#8. Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#9. You can never have too much money.

Jess C. Scott

#10. A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life.

J. Lynn

#11. I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Meaning no disrespect, sir, but there's no way in the Good Lord's fucking universe that anyone can bar accidents or the unexpected.

Dan Simmons

#13. He's British. He's addicted to waving his long stick around. He has a superb sweater collection.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#14. It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.

Anthony Liccione

#15. There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.
Bomar

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

George Eliot

#17. Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

John Y. Campbell

#18. Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.

Shmuley Boteach

#19. The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Bryant H. McGill

#20. Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they'll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.

Philip Slater

#21. Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

Rick Perlstein

#22. His round cheeks are of a red that seems to glow from within, as if he had a lit candle in his mouth like a paper lantern at a summer fete.

Joseph Roth

#23. Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

Marvin Sapp

#24. Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.

Claire Cross

#25. The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.

Alain De Botton

#26. Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.

James Gustave Speth

#27. No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

Clement Attlee