Madhura Naik Quotes

People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

It's almost like my life is a fairytale.

Fate has blessed me.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

My mother used 'Cinderella' as the antidote of what was in store for me.

There is only one GC, so whoever does end up with me in the end is a very lucky person.

Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.

My whole thing in life is I just want freedom. I thought that money would give me that freedom. I was wrong. It bound me more than it freed me, because now I had more things to worry about, more people asking for money, I thought I had to buy a house and nice cars and different things that people with money are supposed to do.

We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.

I'm obsessed with shoes. I must have hundreds of pairs...That reminds me- I need to go shopping!

I zoomed in on the shoe department like a blonde homing pigeon. Shoes, shoes everywhere! Ah, sweet shoes. I truly think you can take the measure of a civilization by looking at its footwear.

I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of s**t that I don't need, that I refuse to share with others.

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.