Desiring material goods is not always a bad thing.It is normal for people to desire things that will make them happy and content. In fact, this is one of the primary reasons we aim for success.However, wanting more than you can afford or need can make things more difficult. When our appetites spiral out of control, we usually stumble and lose our sense of contentment. We begin to feed our materialistic inclinations, and eventually, they take over, making us resentful, selfish, and greedy.We must constantly remind ourselves that physical things cannot provide true happiness. Even though we require a few things to survive, consumerism is not the way to a happy, fulfilling existence. Read on about material things quotes to help you control your want for more.Quotes About Love For Material ThingsThe greatest way to live a happy life is to pursue your passions, spend time with the people you cherish, and give back to your community. You can be happy through materialistic love, but this happiness is fleeting.“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness, tenderness, or a sense of comradeship.”- ‘Tuesday for Morrie’, Mitch Albom.“Success doesn’t bring happiness. Only material stuff like money, cars, and iPods can do that. And I’ve already got all that. So I have to find other ways to amuse myself.”- Murdoc Niccals"All the things you think are important - money, power, material possessions - none of them will make you happy. There’s no correlation between wealth and happiness. None. It’s one of society’s biggest lies."- ‘Ready To Kill’, Andrew Peterson.“Ma’s still spending too much money on clothes. I’m trying to teach her that material possessions don’t equal happiness. It’s a work in progress.”- ‘The Hooker and The Hermit’, L. H. Cosway"We know that the material things don’t offer contentment, but we still buy more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and “happening.” Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth, and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best."- Susan L. Taylor"Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness."- ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’, Mitch Albom.“Changing the external conditions of your lives - earning more money, being in better physical shape, having another partner, or traveling more - will not change how you feel. It never works because the emptiness is not around, is within. The only way to come back to life is to acknowledge that little voice rising from your heart and begging you to return to love, to return to truth.”- Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.“Happiness doesn’t necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that’s a good start.”- Joan Jett"Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don’t take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don’t."- Shari ArisonThought-Provoking Material Thing QuotesOur possessions necessitate time, energy, and effort. They must be cleaned, organized, handled, and kept in good condition. They frequently divert our attention away from the things that genuinely provide us enduring satisfaction.“When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.”- Anthony Liccione"Materialism is decadent and degenerates only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it."- Brooks Atkinson"If we were never depressed, we would not be alive - - only material things don’t suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation."- ‘My Utmost For His Highest’, Oswald Chambers.“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into this world because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.”- E. F. Schumacher"Through a long and painful process, I’ve learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I’ve become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress."- Alana Stewart"At the very instant that you think, ‘I am happy’, a chemical messenger translates your emotion, which has no solid existence whatever in the material world, into a bit of matter so perfectly attuned to your desire that literally every cell in your body learns of your happiness and joins in."- Deepak Chopra"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."- Mahatma Gandhi"Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind."- Dalai Lama"Happiness is a spiritual dimension; therefore its source should also be spiritual, not material."- Sunday Adelaja"Given the opportunity of ‘Earth-School’ enrollment - some are humble enough to learn and grow, stubborn enough to fail and repeat, and wise enough to graduate and never return."- ‘From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with ‘The Divine Presence’, T.F. Hodge.“A truly good life is defined not by the material things we try to fill ourselves with but by the spiritual and emotional things that we are already filled with. These things lead to a constant state of happiness.”- ‘The 7 Habits That Will Change Your Life Forever’, Adam Houge.“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”- Bertrand RussellQuotes About Material Things Not Being ImportantBefore you start to become cluttered with things, concentrate more on your long-term objectives and downsize your tangible assets.“Material things don’t matter.”- John Catsimatidis"A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it."- Lionel Shriver"Materialistic things bring forth some pleasurable moments, but never a sample of happiness."- Edmond Mbiaka"At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You’ll thank yourself for it later."-Vironika Tugaleva"We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us, and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able."- F. Sionil Jose"The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy."- Joseph Franklin Rutherford"Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than the relentless pursuit of materialism."- Laurance Rockefeller"When your focus on earth is only on material things and earthly blessings, you will never be satisfied."- Sunday Adelaja"Material is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that’s in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don’t need luxury items to feel special; you already are special."- Yuna"People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn’t work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world."- Sylvia Boorstein"These days, in our materialistic culture, many people believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they don’t have enough of it, they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values."- Dalai Lama"Don’t complicate your life by surrounding yourself with people who see life as a competition about who has the most material possessions."- Edmond Mbiaka"Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives that have no confidence or purpose."- ‘The Grear Inflation And Its Aftermath’, Ronald Reagan"I used to think that having many material things would increase one’s stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don’t make the man at all."- George Harrison"To the world, I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings that no amount of money could buy - health and happiness, and inner peace."- Peace Pilgrim"Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy."- Pope Francis"Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren’t for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn’t bother me a bit."- James A. Michener"There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception."- Tarek SaabMust-Know Material Things QuotesThe quest and acquisition of material items will never completely satisfy our yearning for happiness. It may bring immediate joy to some, but the joy obtained in purchasing a new thing rarely lasts more than a few days.“Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to whom it brings correlative pain.”- ‘Sceptical Essays’, Bertrand Russell.“Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one… a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls and, for this reason, needs to be understood less in terms of budgets or fiscal cycles and more in terms of where we locate the sacred, where we search for meaning and transcendence, and how we think about justice, equality, and the future of our world."– Robert Wuthnow"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.”- Henri Frederic Amiel"Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself."- Arthur Schopenhauer"Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself."- Boleslaw Prus"Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it."- Robert Breault"The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them."- Louis C.K.“The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude, for example, gratitude that things are not worse, a trained mind, the right habits of thought - life skills, will bring to us the best there is in the universe.”- Orison Swett Marden"I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad, and material things cease to be important."- David Rockefeller"Do not think you need necessarily have as fine swords and clothing as your neighbor. As long as they are not disreputable, they will do. And if you borrow and lose your independence, you will be despised."- Hojo Soun"Leaders don’t define wealth by the material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take."- ‘Leaders’ Ladder’, Israelmore Ayivor.
Desiring material goods is not always a bad thing.
