Material Desires

Famous quotes containing the words material and/or desires:

“One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest-trees.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A superior person desires truth more than he fears poverty.”
—Chinese proverb.

Confucian Analects.