“Unlike water, which prefers to lie flat as it accumulates, material wealth in complex societies likes to pile itself up into huge… — David Christian Copy Share Image
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but… — Philo Copy Share Image
“Research shows that the pursuit of material wealth and achievements fails to create true happiness and that happiness depends four times as… — Chris Masi Copy Share Image
I can say from experience that the poorest of people are far more happier than the richest of people. I'm not rich… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the… — Lawrence B. Lindsey Copy Share Image
It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the… — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart,… — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
For Christians ultimate reality is and can only be a personal, sovereign, holy, and loving God. But even some Christians, under extra-biblical… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“The refusal to change by clinging onto superficial material wealth at any cost today, is a certain sentence of death tomorrow for… — Alastair Agutter Copy Share Image
I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of… — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Death is the destiny of every man. Why do people fight over power and material wealth. We brought nothing into the world,… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“The pain of losing something precious - be it happiness or material wealth – can be forgotten over time. But our missed… — Sabahattin Ali Copy Share Image
“How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a… — Stephen Birmingham Copy Share Image
These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“But it is America that has taken FWPs to a whole new level. It is only when such great material wealth combines… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new,… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
“Even so, unlike most in society, these politicians thought long and deep about how to turn race to their advantage. We’ve previously… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
“The question is, does the educated citizen know he is only a cog in an ecological mechanism? That if he will work… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
