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Quotes About Material

Nunca solo, contigo, tierra Contigo el mar, la vida, cuanto soy, cuanto doy y cuanto canto, esta materia amor, la tierra, el mar, el pan, la vida
~ Pablo Neruda
Yet comprehension does not imply belief. Nor does it mean that those who purvey such beliefs do so for more than… material gain.
~ Paolini, Christopher
He laughed. "I mean a pension of fathomless peace — a reward for many years of deep meditation. I never crave money now. My few material needs are amply provided for.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. After that you should utilize all necessary material means to achieve your goal.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
When life force is shut off from the sensory organs, material sensations cannot reach the brain to snatch away the meditator's attention from God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Through difficult daily lessons you will sometime see clearly that bad habits nourish the tree of unending material desires, while good habits nourish the tree of spiritual aspirations.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Humor has always been the redemptive angel in the Conroys's sad history. With this family, I shall never grow hungry from lack of material.
~ Pat Conroy
First, you need something to organize: ideas, material, scraps of expertise, recipes, prognostications, anecdotes, scurrilous gossip, anything that might be relevant to what you want to write. And you get this stuff by hoarding it, by faithfully making notes and squirreling them away.
~ Patricia T. O'Conner
asesor editorial de esta revisión recibió la difícil tarea de determinar qué partes del material original debían cambiarse. Para ayudarse en el trabajo, les pidió a varios de los maestros de los Cursos de Dale Carnegie que entregaran ejemplares del libro a estudiantes y graduados
~ Dale Carnegie
The material universe is both an essential display of the greatness and goodness of God and the arena of the eternal life of finite spirits, including the human.
~ Dallas Willard
But today, something begins to shift. I see that there might be some way I can take the raw material of my life and transform it into something that has order and structure. I can make sense of what, until now, has been senseless.
~ Dani Shapiro
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
~ Wayne Dyer
The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print. I had silk.
~ Wilkie Collins
When science has sufficiently ferreted out the forms of things, the world will be merely the raw material of whatever utopia man may decide to make.
~ Will Durant
Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?
~ William Blake
But he was not a coward...not so much to the idea of pouring out human blood and life, but at the idea of waste of wearing out and eating up and shooting away material in any cause whatever.
~ William Faulkner
It's like some folks has the smooth, pretty boards to build a courthouse with and others dont have no more than rough lumber fitten to build a chicken coop. But it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse, and when they both build shoddy or build well, neither because it's one or tother is going to make a man feel the better nor the worse.
~ William Faulkner
In simple straightforward terms Dan, you might say that he structured the material in terms of the ongoing situation to tangibilitate the utilization potential of this one to one instructional medium in such a meaningful learning experience that these kids won't forget it for a hell of a long time, how's that Whiteback.
~ William Gaddis
She was big on patination. That was how quality wore in, she said, as opposed to out. Distressing, on the other hand, was the faking of patination, and was actually a way of concealing a lack of quality.
~ William Gibson
In the kitchen, Chub clung to the wall, made no sound whatsoever, but his mouth opened and closed, opened and closed, as he told himself, kept telling himself, that life was material, everything was material - you just had to live long enough to see how to use it.
~ William Goldman
A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.
~ William James
The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable. Is the world one or many?—fated or free?—material or spiritual?
~ William James
he had the patience to wait and the shrewdness to realize that the climate of material prosperity and of a feeling of relaxation which settled over Germany in those years was not propitious for his purposes.
~ William L. Shirer
From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and horrified investigators.
~ China Mieville