Quotes About Materialism

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones

Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.

You can't buy happiness

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

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.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.