Material Quotes

2445 Material quotes by 1790 unique authors

To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart. Every human learns one day or another to become softer. Some… — Shams Tabrizi
We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful? — Tom Ford
This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that… — Dean Koontz
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to… — Helen Garner
Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom. — Pema Chodron
You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU. — Lee Friedlander
Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted. — Francine Prose
Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of… — George Gershwin
Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in… — Rickie Lee Jones
Perhaps the most reliable route to meaning and joy, to plunging below the surface and seeking more than the superficiality of material ambition, is connection… — Michael Short
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of… — Peter Brook
How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place! — Pope Francis
The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the… — Tom Waits
The problems in the world were made so that you don’t get stuck and attached to this world. You get stuck with this world even… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed.… — B R Ambedkar
Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest… — Dalai Lama
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves. — Pope Francis
We all want to live a happy life and have a right to do so, whether through work or spiritual practice. I'm subject to destructive… — Dalai Lama
A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them… — Dalai Lama
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material… — E F Schumacher
It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting… — Haile Selassie
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. — J D Salinger
There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its… — Sigmund Freud

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