“I believe religions are derivative of truth leading to the same notion. They’re guides all our ancestors had for countless generations and the reason has been subtracted from our lives, which has left us with this void that we’ve filled with materialism.”— David LaChapelle, theguardian.com
“I hate stores. Stores are corny. It’s a fact. Who wants to be sold anything?”— Virgil Abloh, 2x4.org
“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!”— Dr. Seuss, amazon.com
“I have no desire for possessions… I’ve never wanted to collect anything for as long as I can remember.”— Rei Kawakubo, system-magazine.com
“Beloveds, the accumulation of material possessions is not the measure of success.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“In today’s materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.”— Dalai Lama, twitter.com
“I'll tell you what happened, son! See, there's a bunch of idiots out there who weren't happy with what they had! They wanted a bigger house and materialistic things that they didn't even need. People with no money who got loans to buy frivolous things they had no business buying. And these assholes…”— Trey Parker, Randy Marsh, Trey Parker, imdb.com
“Some people are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Husbands come and go, but the Chanel slingback is forever.”— Gail Lerner, Karen Walker, Megan Mullally, imdb.com
“Our soul is lost when people are treated like things and things are treated like gods.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“Children who have trifled with and lost everything — love, honour, hope, and faith — and who are travelling rapidly to the grave with no consolation save a few handfuls of base coins, which they must, perforce, leave behind them at the last.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Modern society contains within itself the seed of its own destruction . . . For God's justice is a circle that slowly surrounds an evil and as slowly closes on it with crushing and resistless force — and feverish, fretting humanity, however nobly inspired, can do nothing either to hasten or retard t…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“You only need one pair of shoes at a time. As long as you have enough to eat and somewhere to sleep, it becomes about what you need versus what you can afford.”— Willie Nelson, telegraph.co.uk
“Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.”— Lionel Messi, businessinsider.com
“Fuck off with your sofa units and green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let...let's evolve, let the chips fall where they may.”— Chuck Pahlaniuk, Tyler Durden, Brad Pitt, amazon.com
“You are not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”— Chuck Pahlaniuk, Tyler Durden, Brad Pitt, amazon.com
“Poverty is probably the greatest asset the Communists have. Wherever it exists, anyplace in the world, you have a potential Communist breeding ground. It figures that if a man is frustrated in a material sense, his family hungry, he suffers, he broods and he becomes susceptible to the blandishments…”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“Self love changes your relationship with finances. We often think 'once I have this, I will be enough' & that thought keeps us caught in a cycle of buying but never feeling satisfied. Nothing you can buy has the power to make you feel like you're 'enough.' It comes from within.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com