Browsing Quotes With Tag: materialism (42)
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Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
Speaker: Will RogersPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonSource: http://zenhabits.net/own/Posted: 27 Jun 2011 at 6:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellSource: http://zenhabits.net/own/Posted: 27 Jun 2011 at 6:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving
Speaker: Lao TzuSource: http://zenhabits.net/light-life/Posted: 29 Oct 2010 at 8:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves
Speaker: Edwin Way TealPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t know what it is for me, but I sometimes feel as if I’m standing on a beach and there are waves smothering me – waves of advertisements for shit I don’t need, of profiles of people who’ve never done anything except be famous, of politicians mouthing platitudes, of hundred of TV channels showing nothing.
Speaker: Michael KamberSource: Shooting the TruthPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 11:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t know what it is for me, but I sometimes feel as if I’m standing on a beach and there are waves smothering me – waves of advertisements for shit I don’t need, of profiles of people who’ve never done anything except be famous, of politicians mouthing platitudes, of hundred of TV channels showing nothing.
Speaker: Michael KamberSource: Shooting the TruthPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 11:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Speaker: Charles Dudley WarnerPosted: 20 Dec 2009 at 9:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.
Speaker: Andrew CarnegiePosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 7:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Yet another piece of the solution dropped into place when my friend Judy said that the problem was trying to stop the jealousy and competitiveness, and that the main thing was not to let it fuel my self-loathing. She said it was nuts for me to try to be happy for this other writer. I cannot tell you how much this helped. I was raised in a culture that promotes this competitiveness, this insatiability, this fantasy of needing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and then, in the next breath, shames you for any feelings of longing or envy of fear that it will always be someone else’s turn. I was only doing what I had been groomed to do.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who dies with the most toys still dies.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
Speaker: Robert HenriSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora’s box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.
Speaker: Jules HenrySource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True freedom is much more than having enough income and time to do what you want. It is quite possible – actually the rule rather than the exception – to have financial and time freedom but still be caught in the throes of the rat race. One cannot be free from the stresses of a speed- and size-obsessed culture until you are free from the materialistic addictions, time-famine mind-set, and comparative impulses that created it in the first place.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Speaker: Vida D. ScudderSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
Speaker: Antoine de Saint-ExuperySource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
Speaker: Bruce LeeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: “Is this the condition that I feared?”
Speaker: SenecaSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!