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Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.


Andrei Platonov


#come #materialism #meaning #will

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


#material-possessions #materialism #possessions #uselessness #wasted-time

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.


George Saunders


#ascendant #becoming #cloth #dresses #especially

The author's projected intellectual climate nearly 500 years in the future proclaims itself too pragmatic to consider living well as important as material satisfaction. This reminds us, ironically, that choosing NOT to consider life's deeper questions is in itself a choice with profound and lasting consequences.


Bryan M. Litfin


#philosophy #pragmatism #life

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.


Héloïse d'Argenteuil


#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.


Randy Alcorn


#affluenza #child-abuse #materialism #love

When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.


Bryant McGill


#materialism #obssession #life

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.


LeeAnn Taylor


#belonging #earth #humanity #life #man

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?


Henry David Thoreau


#environment #environmental-protection #materialism #possessions #environment

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.


Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach


#materialism #contentment






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