“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”
“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”
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Fulton J. Sheen 78
Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895–1979Related quotes

“Love people, not things; use things, not people.”

“There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.”
Source: Lullaby

The Decorative Arts (1877)
Context: To give people pleasure in the things they must perforce use, that is one great office of decoration; to give people pleasure in the things they must perforce make, that is the other use of it.
Does not our subject look important enough now? I say that without these arts, our rest would be vacant and uninteresting, our labour mere endurance, mere wearing away of body and mind.

“But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 70