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Materialism Quotes

"The sooner we become less impressed with our life, our accomplishments, our career, our relationships, the prospects in front of us—the sooner we become less impressed and more involved with these things—the sooner we get better at them."

"The more we value things, the less we value ourselves."

"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body"

"The whole damn world is just as obsessed with who's the best dressed and who's having sex"

"I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer"

"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual"

"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million"

"We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often."

"The happiest people are not the ones with the most money or the most stuff, but the ones who have invested the most time in others"

"Our nature is obscured by our ideas. We are infinitely rich, yet we keep looking at a room full of coins to measure our wealth"

"Hold everything earthly with a loose hand."

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