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Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. -- James Cash Penney
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. -- Thomas Aquinas
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters. -- John Wooden
I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health. -- Tony Shalhoub
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. -- Barbara de Angelis
But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important. -- Tom Ford
These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path. -- Mary Todd Lincoln
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. -- Chuck Palahniuk
God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions. -- Echo Bodine
The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions. -- Elaine L. Jack
In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state. -- Brother Yun
Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to. -- Booker T. Washington
If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it. -- Charles Trippy
The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man. -- Paul Sweezy
When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing? -- Yasmin Mogahed
To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings which no amount of money could buy - health and happiness and inner peace. -- Peace Pilgrim
Conditions have changed, but we are still operating financially by the rules established during the Industrial Revolution-rules based on creating more material possessions. But our high standard of living has not led to a high quality of life-for us or for the planet. -- Joseph R. Dominguez
Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable - their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves. -- Michelle Obama
None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself. -- Lenny Kravitz
You lose so many material possessions being on the road. You can't get too attached to stuff and you have to remember that people must never become possessions. People are spheres intersecting. You have to make sure that one sphere doesn't ever take over the other. Individuality is absolutely the most important thing -- Brian Molko
Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground. -- Jim Atkinson
I am convinced that wise planning is good. But plans, like material possessions, must always be held loosely. Yes - always! Plan wisely, but be ready for God to rearrange things and take you along paths that may feel dangerous to you. Don't sweat it; He knows what He's doing. And He isn't obligated to inform you ... or request permission to upset your neat little agenda! -- Charles R. Swindoll
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church. -- David Platt
If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. And we will discover that the treasure-house of education has stood intact and unshaken in the storm. The man of cultivated life has founded his house upon a rock. You can never take away the magnificent mansion of his mind. -- John Cudahy
Love is more important than material possessions. -- Thomas F. Wilson
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed. -- Hamish Bowles
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions. -- Harsha Bhogle
When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important. -- Rick Riordan
Possession of the pure synthetic specimens of the anthocyanidins and chief anthocyanins enabled my wife and me to devise quick tests for these colouring matters which can be used with the material from a few flower petals. -- Robert Robinson
I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn't that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now? -- Robert Jeffress
At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing. -- Yo-Yo Ma
I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions. Luckily, as a man you don't need much... a few papers, a couple of books, and a few shirts, jackets, sweaters. It fits in a little thing, in a paper bag, so it's very easy. -- Nicolas Berggruen
There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem. -- Samuel Johnson
Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them. -- Nido R Qubein
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. -- John Cudahy
How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain. -- Denis Waitley
The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions. -- Lee L Jampolsky
Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser. -- George D. Prentice
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
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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