Quotes About Materialism

Cuando no estoy concentrado en lo que le importa a Dios, mi corazón se desvía hacia las cosas de este mundo —más y más grande, mejores y más veloces—la

More than ever, we have big houses and broken homes, high incomes and low morale, secured rights and diminished civility. We excel at making a living but often fail at making a life. We celebrate our prosperity but yearn for a purpose. We cherish our freedoms but long for connection. In an age of plenty, we feel spiritual hunger.

cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Life is like that." He flipped through a few more limp pages. "You collect things as you go—the things you think are important—and soon they weigh you down until you realize that these things you cared so much about mean nothing at all. Our natures are our natures." He grunted. "And they are all we are left with.

As the saying goes, a cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Greed and ego are too often the downfall of mankind

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such.

The salesmen bought me perfume and invited me to lunch. But they couldn't talk to me about why families of guajiros slept in the city's parks under flashing Coca-Cola signs. Those men only murmured sweet nonsense to me, trying in vain to flatter me.

I thought suddenly, what is the meaning of all these things? All these bags and bags I've been packing? We could take everything we have with us. We could take every single thing that every single person in the world has ever had. But not of it would mean anything to me. Because no matter how much I took and no no matter how much I had for the rest of my life, I didn't have him anymore. I could have piled everything from here straight to heaven. None of it was him.

Wealth, status, and power have become in our culture all too powerful symbols of happiness. ... And we assume that if only we could acquire some of those same symbols, we would be nuch happier.

Modern man is one who drives a mortgaged car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas!

The things money could buy weren't the reward; the reward was to feel lifted above everyone else,

Ah, what was that? Jealousy? Men. Take away the jeans and designer labels and you had cavemen beating their chests.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.

It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.

There was physical comfort in abundance, the house was full of beautiful things, but there was no love, no kindness, there was none of the gentleness and consideration which makes the smallest cottage a home.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

Gotta love Walmart. Where else can you buy Fritos and bullets?

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.

Swisha House presented this vibe of candy-painted cars and big chains. I always had a fascination for flashy, expensive things.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

Left to my own vices, all I would own is a Corvette, and it would be broken down.