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How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else? -- Tony Judt
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify. -- Colin Farrell
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. -- Herbert Read
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
Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron. -- Dov Davidoff
Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work. -- Jeremy Rifkin
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth. -- John Maynard Keynes
I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes. -- Roz Savage
Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all. -- Lawrence B. Lindsey
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites. -- George A. Smith
A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all. -- Dalai Lama
Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves - our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love. -- William E. Simon
Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked. -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother. -- Karl Marx
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. -- Eckhart Tolle
I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth. -- Paul Robeson
God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away. -- Philo
It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of all, as well as the material wealth of some. -- Joseph LeConte
My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises. -- S. Truett Cathy
There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind. -- Deepak Chopra
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. -- Theodore Roosevelt
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. -- Alfred Adler
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. . -- John Templeton
Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding. -- Tino Sehgal
There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live in the Southwest, a part of the country with more than its share of fair skies, material wealth, and people who are trying not to be as old as they are. -- Martha Beck
When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest. If our own life is luxurious and wasteful, we can't approach poor people. If we love people, we want to identify with them and share with them. -- Jean Vanier
Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of the control and use of your imagination. Men may deal with you unfairly, as men often do; they may deprive you of your liberty; but they cannot take from you the privilege of using your imagination. In your imagination you always win! -- Jesse Jackson
Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth. -- Dalai Lama
Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth. -- Max Anders
Material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation. -- Sunday Adelaja
Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all -- Shri Radhe Maa
Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind. -- Jerry Gillies
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. -- Ai Weiwei
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. -- Alistair Begg
Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth. -- Richard M. Nixon
Artha - attainment of wealth, material prosperity,Its realization on righteous and moral basis be;- 5 - -- Munindra Misra
Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness. -- Konosuke Matsushita
When there are no conflicts In you, between material wealth and spiritual life, you have found yourself. -- Ruben Papian
Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion. -- Radhanath Swami
Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Take away health, wealth, and material success and all you have is each other. Maybe that's the place we should start. -- Charles Herrick
The only wealth I have to give, is not material - and if you need much more than that, I'm not available. -- Hillary Clinton
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
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. -- Claude M. Bristol
Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived. -- Aldous Huxley
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth. -- Andrew Young
If we want our nations to be truly great we must lay less emphasis on material wealth, natural resources or even human resources. -- Sunday Adelaja
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
Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman. -- Johan Norberg
[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources. -- George Gilder
The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal. -- Narendra Modi
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 State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values. -- David Ben-Gurion
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. -- Sunday Adelaja
But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next? -- Tom Hunter
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants' quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues. -- Sunday Adelaja
Death is the destiny of every man. Why do people fight over power and material wealth.We brought nothing into the world, certainly, we will take nothing out of the world. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible. -- Helena Norberg-Hodge
One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation -- Sunday Adelaja

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