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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
The biggest things in life are not materials. -- Carlos Slim
You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials. -- Carlos Slim
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'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
I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that. -- Jim Hodges
The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life. -- Nicolas Cage
Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. -- Michael D. Higgins
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. -- Oprah Winfrey
By a lot of people's standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on. -- Catherine Tate
I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me. -- Steven Wright
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. -- Ang Lee
When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of 'Jane Eyre,' and I guess I became interested in the idea of romantic love - of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are the important things in life; what should one value over other materials. -- Cary Fukunaga
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully. -- V. S. Naipaul
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most -- Muhammad Ali
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most. -- Muhammad Ali
I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is. -- Alicia Keys
I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is." -- Alicia Keys
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
You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life. -- Karl Marx
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.
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
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
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

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