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The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. -- Billy Graham
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. -- Richard L. Evans
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
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
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship. -- Jennifer Lopez
Material things don't matter. -- John Catsimatidis
Material things aren't important to me. -- Troy Polamalu
Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy. -- Pope Francis
Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go. -- Romeo Miller
It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they? -- Mark Addy
There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal. -- Bikram Choudhury
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves. -- Pope Francis
I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is. -- Alicia Keys
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship -- Mitch Albom
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
Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell. -- Anthony
Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence. -- Malcolm D. Lee
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form. -- John Granger
Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives. -- James A. Forbes
One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life. -- Leon Brown
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
I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things! -- Pope Francis
The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things. -- E. F. Schumacher
My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church. -- Val Kilmer
Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things. -- Maya Angelou
Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things. -- Ludwig von Mises
Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could. -- Jack Canfield
I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people. -- Tino Sehgal
Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away. -- Henry Ford
For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience. -- Edgar Cayce
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. -- Alex Campbell
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. -- Mark Twain
We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can't walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem. -- Joyce Meyer
I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies', I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living. -- Louise Hay
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things. -- John Ruskin
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
Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family? -- Tino Sehgal
Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man. -- Sathya Sai Baba
I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest. -- Andrew Carnegie
Let us encourage the generosity which is typical of the young and help them to work actively in building a better world. Youth do not solely need material things. Above all, they need to have those non-material values which are the spiritual heart of a people ... spirituality, generosity, solidarity, perseverance, fraternity, and joy. -- Pope Francis
In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of Heaven were more real to us, if we lived less for material things and more for things eternal and spiritual, we would be less easily disturbed by this present life. -- Billy Graham
I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't. -- Tom Ford
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
To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself. -- Alan Moore
When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her; she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them. -- Tom Ford
The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter. -- Vanilla Ice
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. -- Virginia Woolf
To measure success with material things is failure! -- Tony Robbins
Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material. -- Garrison Keillor
Material things aside, we need not advice but approval. -- Coco Chanel
I don't like to attach myself to material things. -- Jourdan Dunn
Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason. -- Immanuel Kant
It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things. -- Theaster Gates
Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings. -- Tracy Chapman
Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you. -- Randy Gage
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most. -- Muhammad Ali
The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most -- Muhammad Ali
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. -- Ludwig von Mises
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world. -- Sri Aurobindo
Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of. -- Charles E. Burchfield
Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget. -- Heather Dorff
I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is." -- Alicia Keys
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life. -- Karl Marx
There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material. -- Walter Lang
I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes. -- Kevin Hart
I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values. -- Harry S. Truman
You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly. -- Caryll Houselander
Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions. -- Yoko Ogawa
The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature. -- Drew Endy
If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things. -- Rob Bell
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. -- Robert Kennedy
Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence. -- Malcolm D. Lee
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death. -- Alexander Crummell
Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal ! -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Most things of exchange require money. The most worthy of exchange requires the mind, heart and time. It's a SPIRITUAL not MATERIAL journey!~ -- Bobby Compton
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things. -- Ben Shahn
We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy. -- Tom Ford
If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away. -- John Wooden
I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me. -- Joe Mansueto
Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value. -- Esther Rolle
The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality. -- Anagarika Govinda
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things. -- Richard Flanagan
The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body. -- Khalil Gibran
Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession -- Robert S. Jepson, Jr.
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool. -- Og Mandino
When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries. -- David McCullough
As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value. -- Matt Damon
My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved. -- Tony Robbins
What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core. -- Lisa Randall
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma. -- Gautama Buddha
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful. -- Judd Nelson
When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more precious. You own yourself. -- Deepak Chopra
That's one of the things we're most excited about, really, is just allowing this great, Oscar-nominated actor, giving him material to play in one of his signature roles. -- David Kirschner
I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things. -- Sam Keen
One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years. -- Al Yankovic
The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love -- James Hillman
One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life. -- Matthew James Thomas
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
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with. -- Fred Frith
I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all. -- George Harrison
The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue. -- Ann Bridge
At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later. -- Vironika Tugaleva
If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for -- Zhuangzi
Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start. -- Joan Jett
It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things. -- Indra Devi
The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.) -- Sophie Scholl

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