Quotes on Acquiring Things

I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things . . . which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.