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Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call -- Elizabeth Gilbert
At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything. -- Mike Tyson
Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success. -- Ezra Taft Benson
How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her? -- Clarice Lispector
I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things . . . which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising -- Edward Norton
You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all. -- Lauren Bacall
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense. -- John Taylor Gatto
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man. -- John Lancaster Spalding
If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. -- Ernest Hemingway
It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws. -- Bertrand Russell
A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience. -- Brooke Waggoner
By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit. -- Kelly Wearstler
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present. -- Robert Harris

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