Nonmaterialistic Quotes

#1. If I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture ... Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.

Randy Alcorn

#2. My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

James McBride

#3. There is a deep - and usually frustrated - desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.

Xenophon

#4. One cannot have a future if he doesn't serve the one and only God

Sunday Adelaja

#5. There's no point in clinging to illusions.

Eva Heller

#6. I'm not going to be everything to everyone.

Katy Perry

#7. What happened to, 'girls on left, boys on right?'" Mr. Bradshaw asked wearily.
Jayden shrugged. "We got bored. Nothing's fun without people of the opposite gender.

Embee

#8. The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.

Gerard Butler

#9. Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#10. I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

Roy Blount Jr.

#11. You'll do well, Percy. Just remember your strengths and beware your weaknesses.

Rick Riordan

#12. Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary.

Alison Bechdel

#13. I work out of silence, because silence makes up for my actual lack of working space. Silence substitutes for actual space, for psychological distance, for a sense of privacy and intactness. In this sense silence is absolutely necessary.

Radka Donnell

#14. Middling brothers. Goddamn chickens, the lot of them.

Penny Reid