“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
“In English we say: the best things in life are free. In Naskarian we say: abundance without awareness causes sickness.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Counting your blessings on a private jet, doesn't make you grounded.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
“In the end, the final justification of the materialist is not reason, as he so fondly thinks, but mere belief. For it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Please, no matter how we advance technologically , please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“We can also take personal initiative to reduce the depressive, isolating effects of a materialist mindset by avoiding its stimulants -- most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Many South Africans qualify for working visas in the UK and are keen to experience working and living overseas. However, more and… — Susan Harris Copy Share Image
“To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism,… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“Life and Abundance (The Sonnet) A person to take refuge in, a purpose to be driven by, that's all you need to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Materialism has defeated feminism as well. In a sign of the times, Gloria Steinem was on the picket line when the first… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“The Gaon explains that the juggler in the first story in this book represents a man who has devoted himself entirely to… — Aharon Feldman Copy Share Image
“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“A fast car can make women 'like' a man; and a man 'like' women … fast.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“A lot of people spend a lot of time chasing a lot of things that will never bring lasting happiness.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“The bitter truth is that most people are not into you; they're into what you have.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
