Top 34 Possessions Materialism Quotes
#1. The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.
Saul D. Alinsky
#2. It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things. When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things, can you?
Kazuo Ishiguro
#3. Let the ruins come to life
In the beauty of Your name
Rising up from the ashes
God forever You reign
Hillsong
#4. What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau
#7. We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know - or seem to have, earn, or know.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#8. If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!
Stephen Richards
#9. I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.
Aretha Franklin
#10. Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
Oliver Goldsmith
#11. For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don't have to think about the tragic things that happened in my life or the greatest things that happened in my life.
Queen Latifah
#12. 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
#13. There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.
Starhawk
#14. He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have
everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.
Orson Scott Card
#15. It's taking all my self-control not to fuck you on the hood of this car, just to show you that you're mine, and if I want to buy you a fucking car, I'll buy you a fucking car Christian Grey
E.L. James
#16. The pearl only weighs the oyster down.
Marty Rubin
#17. We preoccupy ourselves with what we had - or what we want to have - at the expense of what we have.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#18. The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
Cesare Pavese
#19. To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
Wallace Stegner
#20. The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. ... they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.
Thomas Mann
#21. Material possessions do not last, but memories last forever.
Margo Vader
#22. A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.
William James
#23. To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.
Rius
#27. I don't like Paradise,
As they probably don't have obsessions there.
Alda Merini
#28. In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.
Brother Yun
#29. TRAN-SCRIPT-URES
If women had dominated religion - would we have referred to God as 'she'?
Kamil Ali
#30. There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.
Randy Alcorn
#31. It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
#32. To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.
Winston Churchill
#33. How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
Ashly Lorenzana
#34. Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In two or more generations they should have a small fortune of 'ancient' famous items.
Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea
