Non-Material Values Quotes

Money is not something that's very important to me.

We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

People have to know there is more to living than physical things.

We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.

The only thing I have retained from my upbringing - I did not retain the religious element - is the idea that you do not do things for money.

Not everything is for sale; not everything is about money.

If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense.

Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding.

The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and not being about the bottom line and not worshipping the market or everything that is material.

Let us encourage the generosity which is typical of the young and help them to work actively in building a better world. Youth do not solely need material things. Above all, they need to have those non-material values which are the spiritual heart of a people ... spirituality, generosity, solidarity, perseverance, fraternity, and joy.

Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.