#materialistic

[howifeltabouthim]

'I bought the castle for you. And I'll work and slave to make sure you never have to leave it. I always want to see you like this: a jewel in a velvet box.'

Anna Biller, from Bluebeard's Castle

[dk-thrive]

And we: spectators, always, everywhere, turned toward the world of objects, never outward. It fills us.  We arrange it.  It breaks down. We rearrange it, then break down ourselves.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Eight Elegy" in Duino Elegies (Insel Verlag, 1923) (via Thoughts)

[angpagsulatnihoney]

Value Your Worth

Please take a look at your way of thinking. The lifestyle, the relationship you want to have. It's not looks but your beliefs, decision making, and talking things maturely. Welcome changes to yourself and other people. Yes, loving yourself is how you value your self worth but not material things, and money matters because you cannot take that to your grave.

[virtuouslibertines69]

"But neither Saint Matthew, nor Saint Mark, nor Saint Luke, nor the other Evangelists had emphasized the maddening charms and depravities of the dancer. She remained vague and hidden, mysterious and swooning in the far-off mist of the centuries, not to be grasped by vulgar and materialistic minds, accessible only to disordered and volcanic intellects made visionaries by their neuroticism; rebellious to painters of the flesh, to Rubens who disguised her as a butcher's wife of Flanders; a mystery to all the writers who had never succeeded in portraying the disquieting exaltation of this dancer, the refined grandeur of this murderess." - Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against the Grain

Art by Helga Helleborus

[revpauljbern]

Why do individuals and entire countries go to war with each other? Why do people lose their cool when they're stuck in traffic? The answers are similar and, for some, unsettling. https://medium.com/@greatestservant62/of-materialism-and-materialistic-people-5602b539da63

[onceifixmehesgonnamissme]

[amalgamgooze]

Under the Stars in a Hot Tub

How strange it is for me to gaze up at infinite skies from a hot tub.

A shimmering stellar curtain above and a simmering hot tub below.

Does not the hot tub represent infinite materialism, and the stars a love for natural beauty?

And I’m enjoying both, but if I could only choose one, I’d definitely choose the stars over the hot tub any day.

[afriblaq]

How To Sell To The Negro, 1954.

Very relevant today!

"20 yrs ago, a college dropout said “cuz they made us hate ourselves and luv they wealth."

[augustweathermusings]

girlies attaching sentimental value to objects because it feels safer to do so rather than with a person but then personalizing that object to the point that if they lose it, a newer version of it could never take its place. (it's just love all over again)

[vampeony]

They never gave me love, only silence wrapped in money.

So I learned to crave gold the way others crave warmth.

Every denied gift reopens a childhood bruise

where love was priced, and I was always too expensive to keep.

Now I trust nothing but the weight of what can be held.

[hollywoodevilgossip]

This year we have pedro movies releasing 2025 is for pedro year

Freaky tales April 4, 2025

Materialistic June 13, 2025

Fantastic 4 July 25, 2025

The last of us

Eddington didn't have premier date as yet

And April 2 he will be turning hottie 50

[xx-cherry-cola-xx]

she is me. I am her <3

[howifeltabouthim]

It was easier to tell people that something was for money rather than love. You could move across the country for a low-paying internship. You could not do the same for a man who didn't expressly send for you.

Lisa Taddeo, from Ghost Lover

[fabiwasabiii]

[aytelowfobiya]

Part 12/13: Magnum P.I Reaction Gifs

[unpopradicalism]

Mithuna (मिथुन - Gemini) is the third sign of the Vedic zodiac. It's an Air and Mutable sign which symbolizes duality, the process of polarization of spirit and matter which creates intellectual perception.

Ruled by Mercury, planet of curiosity, adaptability, versatility, changeableness and vivacity, this sign is multifaceted, full of nervous energy, a master of distraction, and its mind an eerie maze.

Mithuna lives totally in his mind, and thus is an emotionally disconnected intellectual. Mithuna is also characterized by a complete absence of morality. This sign’s approaches of life is basically materialistic and pessimistic. This restless mind is prone to depression, anxiety, overthinking and mental exhaustion. Mithuna/Gemini is an information gatherer with an insatiable thirst for data and intellectual stimulation...but also for rumors, gossips, anecdotes, word of mouth and dirty secrets. However, he doesn’t do this in order to share informations and knowledge, but to use it for his own benefit. Indeed, Mithuna is a selfish sign.

This sign is a skilled sinister communicator, able to pretend to be your best friend while only seeing you as information gathering ressource. He’ll flirt with your secrets but guard his own. Mithuna is non-emotional, lacking in empathy, so he’s not here to form actual connections.

Mithuna loves to mock, scorn and ridicule others. His dark humor, adept at sarcasm, won’t hesitate to use dirty secrets, people’s worst fears, to set labyrinthine traps, just for the sake of his own sinister entertainment, cutting people’s emotions and leaving them hurted and vulnerable…