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I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions. -- Benjamin Graham
I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure. -- Cary Fukunaga
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
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. -- Don Marquis
And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress. -- Alana Stewart
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
Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias. -- Wyndham Lewis
Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy. -- Pope Francis
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances. -- Aristotle
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. -- David Brin
Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you. -- Randy Gage
Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness. -- Konosuke Matsushita
What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major. -- Nas
HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron. -- Dov Davidoff
Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it. -- Robert Breault
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
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
If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile. -- Og Mandino
Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind. -- Dalai Lama
There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception. -- Tarek Saab
A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness. -- Robert Genn
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. -- Simone de Beauvoir
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
Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms? -- Robert Muller
That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set. -- Robert Neelly Bellah
In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved. -- Laura Schlessinger

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