Material Possessions Quotes

“How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“Letting go of attachments to material possessions, relationships, or past experiences that stifle or no longer serve us can be liberating and allow us to move forward with our lives. When we contain our 'loss aversion,' we learn to bounce back from setbacks and master the qualities for navigating life's challenges. We can
convert the terror of loss aversion into a mindset leading to greater freedom and personal empowerment. (“Paper Boats Forever »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even the new bed felt tainted. It was an inner-spring monument to lies, a petri dish of mendacity she had shared with her faithless husband, and shared now with creeping dreams that flew from the light but left harsh scratches and diseased black feathers. Laine promised herself that, as soon as, she could, she would rid herself of this house, this bed, her clothes, her jewelry - everything but the flesh she lived in. She would scrub herself clean and flee to start a new life whose first and only commandment would be: Never let thyself be lied to again.”
― Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path

“Too often, people carry around so much pain in their hearts, that they surround their hearts with an impenetrable wall. In order to make up for the lack of love, people change their focus from their hearts to their brains. The limbic system of the brain likes to collect things and declare its territory. Sadly, because most people lack the courage to open up their hearts again (to possibly being hurt once again), they try to substitute physical assets for the lack of joy that can only be found in the heart. The Demiurge is very happy if you are living in your brain and take your pleasure from acquiring objects, rather than through the many varieties of love. Material possessions bring a kind of fleeting pleasure, but they will never provide a deep joy. Only love brings joy. And to love, one needs to be aware.”
― Laurence Galian, Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!

“Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928)”
― Clare Winger Harris, The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women

“Suppose you woke up one morning to discover that you were the last person on earth. [...] In the situation described, you could satisfy many material desires that you can't satisfy in our actual world. You could have the car of your dreams. You could even have a showroom full of expensive cars. You could have the house of your dreams - or live in a palace. You could wear very expensive clothes. You could acquire not just a big diamond ring but the Hope Diamond itself. The interesting question is this: without people around, would you still want these things?”
― William B. Irvine, On Desire: Why We Want What We Want

“Laine taped the last box shut. That was it, then: All of Gavin's belongings put away; some for charity, some for the dump, some to be saved for a happier 'one day' that Laine felt, right now, was as distant as the stars.”
― Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path

“What he was referring to is the fact that there are two worlds: the true glory of Sophia and the false world of the Demiurge. The false world of the Demiurge seems the same as the world of Sophia, except that it is, to use a metaphor, colorless. The world of the Demiurge is the world as it seems to people obsessed with material possessions, attracted by the desire to control the realm of the Goddess Sophia, people who prefer the artificial to the authentic, people in the clutches of delusional poisonous drugs, people with addictions to other people and alcohol, as well as food, spending, pornography, gambling, angry people who are fixated with politics and financial issues; people who are full of illusory worries about possible future events rather than living in the authentic present now, people who see the world through the eyes of the media and people who are completely isolated from themselves emotionally. These people never 'see' and never 'hear' the real world around and within them. They live in the false duplicate reality of the Earth manufactured by Yaldabaoth. This facsimile is an illusory world.”
― Laurence Galian, Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!

“Those who make no contributions to the society, show off with cars, motorcycles, credit cards and other meaningless material possessions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“I didnt always have things, but I had people. I had a mother and a father who I would match against any other. [...] I had friends who would leap in front of a bus for me. You need to know that I was loved, that whatever my lack of religious feeling, I have always loved my people and that broad love is directly related to the specific love I feel for you.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“it is good to have wealth. It is great to leave in comfort. It is awesome to obtain possessions but, don't be too eager for material possessions for the same material possessions that bring joy are the same possessions that bring sorrow and pain and also leave a big had I know on our minds”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Virtues are worth more than the material things.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“The wisdom of nature continues to teach humanity that the material...is immaterial.”
― Jason Versey

“Money is a good weapon against the scum and is of no consequence to the noble mind. - On Money.”
― Lamine Pearlheart, To Life from the Shadows: Conversations with the Light

“...a person's value does not rest on outward appearances, but on his true merits, what he really is.”
― Jorge Amado, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

“In this maze of antiques, she says, are the ghosts of everyone who has ever owned this furniture. Everyone rich and successful enough to prove it. All of their talent and intelligence and beauty outlived by decorative junk. All the success and accomplishments this furniture was supposed to represent, it's all vanished.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Civilization is not the one that has an abundance of material objects to incessantly crave for, rather true civilization is the one that has an abundance of contentment regardless of material possession.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Conscience over Nonsense

“It is perhaps due to the absence of peace that they are trying to fill the void with material possessions, no amount of which will ever bring peace of mind.”
― Mango Wodzak, 2020 Vision

“Being obsessed with money is a high price to pay.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Do you place more value on relationships or things?”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Don't worry about trying to keep up with the Joneses. They're flat out trying to keep up with their repayments.”
― T.W. Lawless

“We grew up hearing stories about how he has been cheated - out of money, out of reputation, out of a grander fate. We had lost everything, he'd wail, and that was despite the fact that we had each other.”
― Alison Singh Gee

“Viendo aquellas enormes cajas de objetos, pensé lo absurdo que es almacenar cosas en vida. Ahí estaba todo aquello cogiendo polvo, sin dueño, tan huérfano y sin conseguir que ningún otro ser humano se interesase por ello de la misma forma que fue creado...”
― Albert Espinosa, Brújulas que buscan sonrisas perdidas

“Are you rich or do you just have money?”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“He didn't say, Uncluttered

is the privilege of the rich these days.
Or: In
a world of built-in obsolescence, saved

means saddled with.”
― Linda Gregerson, The Woman Who Died In Her Sleep

“We're ready to lose any value, if it’s not material.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Does genuine happiness truly lie in the relentless accumulation of material possessions?”
― Rove Monteux, What is Wrong with Society Today

“Then there had been the slowdown; an accumulation, as in sluggish rivers. Things ended up in this house that hadn't been needed in their city life but that they couldn't simply throw out. Layers of sediment, over thirty years of it, had sifted in during springs and summers and falls and springs and summers, and now Nell must dig down through these layers, excavate them, as if the house has been buried under the ash from a volcanic eruption.”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“We are but temporary caretakers of all we own. True treasures reside within.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul