133 Quotes About Material

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.

You think the things you can touch and feel are the things that are real, but they are not. Over time, they all get old and decline. The people, the houses, the rocks and the mountains: one day they will all crumble. This is because they are not as real as the things that last forever. It is another one of the lessons we come to teach.

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

An expensive car is material in nature, but driving it does not necessarily make us materialist, just as sitting in a church does not make us spiritual.

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

Unfortunately, we do not often see the advantages in the power of values and virtues. We are easily taken away by physical wealth, material possessions and the power of money.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects