{"quotes":[{"text":"And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["act","aid","assist","awareness","charity","community","consciousness","encourage","help","helping","helping-others","humanity","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","love","material","material-things","materialism","neighbour","neighbourhood","one-world","oneness","own","ownership","poor","possess","possessions","poverty","quote","rich","rich-in-spirit","share","sharing","society","superficial","support","think","together","togetherness","unity","uplft","uplifting","vain","vanity","wealth","wealthy","world"],"id":27402,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Changing the external conditions of your lives - earn more money, be in a better physical shape, have another partner or travel 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.","author":"Dragos Bratasanu","tags":["follow-your-dreams","follow-your-heart","fulfilment","life","live-your-life","material-things","peace-of-mind","spirituality","truth","wisdom"],"id":29883,"author_id":"Dragos+Bratasanu"},{"text":"The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself.","author":"Karen Kingston","tags":["clutter","journey","life","material-things","self-help"],"id":77973,"author_id":"Karen+Kingston"},{"text":"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.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["assets","be-present","family","love","material-things","presence","relationships"],"id":114424,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.","author":"Tim Fargo","tags":["action","actions","emulate","envious","enviousness","envy","greed","greediness","imitation","jealousy","material-things","materialism","motivate","motivated","motivation","rich","riches","richest","success","successful","successful-mind","successful-people"],"id":123527,"author_id":"Tim+Fargo"},{"text":"Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["action","actions","define","food-for-thought","idea","ideas","imagine","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","material","material-things","money","personal-development","purpose","purposeful","rich","vision","visionary","visions","wealth","wealthy"],"id":135996,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["comradeship","gentleness","love","material-things","money","power","substitute","tenderness"],"id":141429,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"Eternal values are much more everlasting than the temporary physical material things.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["eternal-values","material-things","value","values"],"id":273727,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"It is good to have wealth. It is great to leave in comfort. It is awesome to obtain possessions but, don't be too eager for material possessions for the same material possessions that bring joy are the same possessions that bring sorrow and pain and also leave a big had I know on our minds.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["discomforts-of-life","dreams","fantasy","living-life","material-possessions","material-things","materialistic-lfestyle","possessions","wealth","wealth"],"id":284455,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"When your focus on earth is only on material things and earthly blessings you will never be satisfied.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["earthly-blessings","focus","material-things"],"id":430899,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}