Fericire fara bani: Nocivitatea materialismului

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„Spre deosebire de toate celelalte bunuri pe care le cautam pentru a ajunge la altceva prin mijlocirea lor, cautam fericirea pentru ea insasi; ea este binele suprem.”
Aristotel

„A cauta fericirea in aceasta viata, acesta e adevaratul spirit rebel.”
Henrik Ibsen

„Nebunii se preocupa de avere; inteleptul, de fericire.”
Proverb turc

“Civilizatia este multiplicarea fara limite a necesitatilor ne-necesare.”
Mark Twain

“Bogat nu este acela care are cel mai mult ci acela care se multumeste cu cel mai putin.”
Octavian Paler

„E mare bogatie sa te multumesti cu putin.”
Ioan Slavici

„Daca vrei sa faci pe cineva bogat, nu-i spori averea, ci ia-i din dorinte.”
Epicur

„E bogat acela care castiga mai mult decat consuma, este sarac acela ale carui cheltuieli ii depasesc veniturile.”
Jean de la Bruyere

“Tot ceea ce va foloseste cu adevarat se cumpara cu putine parale, numai lucrurile de prisos se vând la preturi mari.“
Axel Munthe

"Omul care tot acumuleaza bani, va deveni din ce in ce mai nefericit, deoarece cu cat are mai multi, cu atat vrea si mai mulţi, si cu cat are mai multi, cu atat se teme mai tare ca o sa-i piarda."
Osho

„Nu poti deveni stapanul lucrurilor posedandu-le pe toate; trebuie sa devii stapanul lor dispretuindu-le pe toate."
Jacques Bossuet

„In spatele fiecarei bogatii sta o faradelege.”
Balzac

„Criminalii sunt niste indivizi cu instincte de pradatori care nu au suficient capital pentru a pune bazele unei corporatii.”
Howard Scott

„Bogatasul este ori un ticalos, ori mostenitorul unui ticalos.”
Proverb spaniol

„Maretia sufleteasca dispretuieste bogatiile.”
Plutarh

„Bogatiile se dobandesc prin munca, osteneala, inselaciune, camata si prin mii de alte cai asemanatoare, si posesiunea lor e inseparabila de avaritie, teama, neliniste, robie, capcane ale aproapelui si, in fine, de o despartire cruda in ceasul mortii.”
Axel Oxenstierna

"E greu sa fii intelept, cand esti bogat, sau bogat cand esti intelept."
Epictet

"Mijloacele de imbogatire sunt numeroase, dar cele mai multe din ele sunt murdare." Bacon

"Bogatia seamana cu apa de mare: cu cat bei mai multa, cu atat devii mai insetat." Schopenhauer

„The higher people are on the materialist scale, the lower they are on the happiness scale.”
Dr. Robert Lane

"The data show that money has minor and rapidly diminishing effects on happiness."
Dr. Daniel Gilbert

"Materialism is toxic for happiness. So if you're poor, it's very bad to be a materialist; and if you're rich, it doesn't make you happier that nonmaterialists, but you almost catch up."
Dr. Ed Diener

"People grossly exaggerate the impact that higher incomes would have on their subjective well-being."
Dr. Alan Krueger

"The relationship between money and happiness is pretty darned small."
Dr. Peter Ubel

"When someone reflects on how additional income would change [their sense of] well-being, they are probably tempted to think about spending more time in leisurely pursuits such as watching a large-screen plasma TV or playing golf. But in reality, they should think of spending a lot more time working and commuting and a lot less time engaged in passive leisure. … By itself, this shift in time is unlikely to lead to much increase in experienced happiness."
Dr. Daniel Kahneman

"Individuals who strive most for wealth tend to live with lower well-being, a finding that comes through very strongly in every culture I’ve looked at."
Dr. Richard Ryan

"Certainly research on happiness indicates that once a person has a comfortable standard of living, increased income and consumption does not lead to increased life satisfaction
and happiness. People find meaning and happiness through their connections with other people, through their engagement in interesting work and activities, and their participation in communities much more than through lavish consumption."
Dr. Erik Olin Wright

"Once you reach a reasonable standard of living, about the level of Mexico today, after that point, the growth in wealth doesn't add to happiness."
Dr. Ruut Veenhoven

"Riches leave a man always as much and sometimes more exposed than before to anxiety, to fear and to sorrow."
Adam Smith

"Modern consumer capitalism will flourish as long as what people desire outpaces what they have. It is thus vital to the reproduction of the
system that individuals are constantly made to feel dissatisfied with what they have.
Growth is said to be the process whereby people's wants are satisfied so that they become happier. In reality, economic growth can be sustained
only as long as people remain discontented. Economic growth does not create happiness: unhappiness sustains economic growth."
Dr. Clive Hamilton

"Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like."
Will Rogers

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
Vernon Howard

"He who buys what he does not need steals from himself." proverb suedez

„Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”
Dale Carnegie

“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
Henry David Thoreau

"Materialism and morality have an inverse relationship. When one increases, the other decreases."
Mahatma Gandhi

„If the American consumer did a thorough cost-benefit analysis on every purchase before it was made, 90% of it would stay in the store. This is why Christmas is so important to our economy. As easy as it is to buy ourselves things we don't need, it's even easier to buy them for someone else.”
Dr. Philip Slater

„One of the weaknesses of our age is inability to distinguish needs from greeds.”
Don Robinson

„Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.”
Fulton Sheen

„The man who dies rich dies disgraced.”
Andrew Carnegie

„Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way.”
Benjamin Franklin

„Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
Richard Wagner

„Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'”
C.S. Lewis

„O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”
Martin Luther King

„No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.”
Joy Davidman

„Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.”
Matthew Arnold

„Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.”
Erich Fromm

„…the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having.”
Brian D. McLaren

„I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.”
Peter Maurin

„There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.”
E. Stanley Jones

„Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.”
William James

„It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.”
Montaigne

„It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.”
G. K. Chesterton

„[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.”
G. K. Chesterton

„There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.”
Wendell Berry

„It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.”
Charles Horton Cooley

„You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
Eric Hoffer

„Great wealth and content seldom live together.”
Thomas Fuller

„Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.”
Socrates

Monday, December 24, 2007

Nocivitatea materialismului

Aline Zoldbrod este doctor in psihologie, experta in terapia sexuala si de cuplu. Folosindu-se de cunostintele sale si de experienta acumulata in relatiile ei directe cu cazurile de probleme in cuplu, experta explica modul in care materialismul, consumerismul competitia si goana dupa statut dauneaza vietii de familie:

"As a Lexington, Massachusetts, psychologist and couples therapist, Aline Zoldbrod is all too familiar with this picture: A husband and wife no longer connect. They are so exhausted from the pursuit of "nice things" - a big house, private school for the kids, fancy cars - that they are time-starved and depleted.
Life is luxurious but unsatisfying and simply no fun. Zoldbrod said it is not only her clinical experience that tells her such clients are on the wrong track. It's a growing body of research."

Confirmari universale
Nocivitatea materialismului pentru vietile personale ale oamenilor este confirmata de din ce in ce mai multe studii.

"Using statistics and psychological tests, researchers are nailing down what clerics and philosophers have preached for millennia: Materialism is bad for the soul. Only, in the new formulation, materialism is bad for your emotional well-being.

In recent years, researchers have reported an ever-growing list of downsides to getting and spending - damage to relationships and self-esteem, a heightened risk of depression and anxiety, less time for what the research indicates truly makes people happy, like family, friendship and engaging work. And maybe even headaches."

Asadar, nocivitatea matrialismului inseamna relatii deteriorate, diminuarea increderii in sine, risc crescut de depresii si anxietate precum si saracirea timpului acordat pentru ceea ce s-a demonstrat ca aducand cu adevarat fericire, in speta familia, prietenii si activitatea facuta din pasiune. Nici durerile de cap nu sunt ocolite de virusul materialist.

Articolul din care am citat este scris de Carey Goldberg, se intituleaza "Materialism is bad for the soul". A aparut la 9 februarie 2006 in International Herald Tribune si poate fi citit in intregime la:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/08/news/snmat.php?page=1

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