Non-Material Wealth Quotes

Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.

We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

I was rich before I had any money. Being rich has nothing to do with anything monetary.

My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the categories of richness are concerned. Let me say it in this way: the man of wealth is the poorest rich man. Looked at from the side of the poor, he is the richest poor man. Looked at from the side of a creative artist, of a dancer, of a musician, of a scientist, he is the poorest rich man. And as far as the world of ultimate awakening is concerned he cannot even be called rich.

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.

I don't get paid like a person that everyone knows, but I get paid so much more in so many ways.

To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings which no amount of money could buy - health and happiness and inner peace.

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things!

At the end of your life, it's friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what's in your bank account. So, even though people don't have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.

I met the most extraordinary people all over the Pacific, but especially the people in Vanuatu who, in a material sense, are the poorest people I've ever come across. They own nothing, but in a well-being sense, they are easily the wealthiest people that I've come across.

Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.