Quotes about Losing Material Things
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
Frank A. ClarkPerfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
PlatoIf we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
SenecaDon't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
Joseph Franklin RutherfordWhat material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah WinfreyWe see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
Nicolas MalebrancheThe modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
Laurence HousmanMaterial things aside, we need no advice but approval.
Coco ChanelI love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.
Calvin KleinYou must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor RooseveltTo do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius SyrusThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy
William ShakespeareThe advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich NietzscheI want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Phyllis DillerBeing a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
William HurtThings are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight David EisenhowerThings do not change; we change.
Henry David ThoreauThings won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William ShakespeareLet common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
Thomas Jefferson
