{"quotes":[{"text":"If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["-stephen-richards","cash","law-of-attraction","material-goods","material-possessions","materialism","materialism-versus-spiritualism","mind-power","wealth-creation"],"id":17006,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["anxiety","dependence-on-god","faith","insurance","material-goods","possessions","today","tomorrow","trust","worry"],"id":307185,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["civilization","material-goods","meaning","money","things","triviality","wealth"],"id":370213,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.","author":"Rick Moody","tags":["conversation","happiness","material-goods","things"],"id":435020,"author_id":"Rick+Moody"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}