#material things

People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do? ↗

— Eric Davis

#enjoy #good #here #lose #material

I don't like to attach myself to material things. ↗

— Jourdan Dunn

#i #like #material #material things #myself

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#consist #derive #future #goods #hold

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#cluttered #curious #get #going #i

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#am #basically #cease #contribute #convinced

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#gets #happens #i #i see #just

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#like #make #material #material things #nonsensical

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#creative #dominates #forms #given #greatest

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#few #few men #happy #material #material things

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#again #biggest #biggest lesson #come #families