Become Quote by Joseph B. Wirthlin

We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must…

— Susan L. Taylor

We all mouth the fact that material possessions don't make you happy but we still pursue them.

— Victor Banerjee

“Materialism, to some extent, requires that the consumer is not fully present or happy. In the moments of a spending frenzy you feel more…

— Patsy Rodenburg

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

— Samuel Johnson

“The desire to possess is marked by an unceasingly growing, voracious element that manifests itself in the simple desire to have more, but also…

— Dorothee Soelle

“Certain material possessions make my life more enjoyable, many others do not…. All too often, a vast collection of possessions end up possessing their…

— Bernardo Kliksberg

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question…

— Norman Mailer

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

— Saul Williams

“I began to understand that the most worthwhile obsession is an obsession that is actually independent of the object of fixation. The object is…

— Pham Thi Hoai

Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of…

— Wendy Farley

Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success,…

— Frederick Lenz

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

— Benjamin Disraeli