{"quotes":[{"text":"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["buying","consumer-culture","consumerism","consumption","deprivation","desert","despair","emptiness","excess","happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","material-possessions","material-world","materialism","materialism-versus-spiritualism","materialistic","materialistic-society","meaning-of-life","meaning-of-things","meaninglessness","modern-life","modern-society","money-happiness","money-not-happiness","nausea","nihilism","nihilistic","opulence","poverty","pursuit-of-happiness","self-inflicted-pain","soul-searching","soulless","spending","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","suffocate","wastefulness","wasteland","wealth","wealth-and-virtues","wealth-of-soul"],"id":31931,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","afterlife-hereafter","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","casket","caskets","coffin","coffins","dead","death","deep","denial-of-death","devil","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","evil","funeral","funeral-parlor","funeral-parlors","funeral-parlour","funeral-parlours","funerals","gnome","gnomes","god","heaven","hell","humor","humour","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","materialism","materialistic","maxim","maxims","poor","poverty","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","religion","religious","rest-in-peace","rich","riches","rip","satan","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","show-off","sin","sinner","sinners","thought-provoking","thoughtful","wealth","wealthy"],"id":39761,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Whether you buy a new TV, or car, (etc.) or any other “material” thing is often “immaterial” to God.","author":"Donald L. Hicks","tags":["god","materialism","materialistic","possessiveness"],"id":42817,"author_id":"Donald+L.+Hicks"},{"text":"All the wealth in the world is nothing, pointless - of no true value - if you yourself feel worthless.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["inspiration","materialism","materialistic","mindset","money","motivational","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","self-belief","self-belief","self-worth","success","wealth","worthless"],"id":58106,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"He who dies with the most toys...Dies a child.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["material-possessions","materialistic","wealth","wealth-accumulation"],"id":62628,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.","author":"Oliver Gaspirtz","tags":["appreciating-life","appreciation","being-grateful","greed","happiness","happy","materialistic"],"id":89897,"author_id":"Oliver+Gaspirtz"},{"text":"I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["attitude","attitude-toward-life","awakening","becoming","changes","changing","day","ego","egoism","egotism","evolving","existence","gracious","growing","immaterial","life","lifestyle","material","materialistic","matter","perspective","philosophy","poet","real","seasons","spirituality","stages","stuff","superficial","things","time","transform","transformations","transforming"],"id":90687,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Don't become so materialistic and mechanized that one day you stop believing in God's created nature and the natural beauty,Enjoy god gifted natural beauty to the fullest as you have only one LIFE!!!","author":"Santosh Adbhut Kumar","tags":["adbhut","god","life","materialistic","mechanized","nature","nature-s-beauty"],"id":179033,"author_id":"Santosh+Adbhut+Kumar"},{"text":"The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","belief","beliefs","clever","consumerism","currency","danger","dangerous","drink","exchange","humor","humour","ignorance","ignorant","info","information","informed","intellect","intellectual","intellectuals","intelligence","made-me-think","make-you-think","materialism","materialistic","medium-of-exchange","misbelief","misbeliefs","misinform","misinformed","money","monied","poor","poverty","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","rich","riches","satire","satirical","smart","spirituality","thought-provoking","unshakable","unshakable-belief","unshakable-beliefs","wealth","wealthy","well-informed","wisdom","wise"],"id":204225,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Let's try living our lives by not letting our minds be ruled by materialistic elements.","author":"Mohith Agadi","tags":["family","life","life","lives","love","materialistic","mohith-agadi","quote","quotes","by-mohith","relationship"],"id":204473,"author_id":"Mohith+Agadi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}