Money may not buy you happiness…

• Don’t fall into the trap of overly associating money with true happiness and security. Anthony Lambert
• For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. Seneca
• Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. Benjamin Franklin
• There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself. Stuart Wilde
• It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon
• Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. Richard DeVos
• Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions. LeCrae
• Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. Benjamin Franklin
• Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus

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…or true security…

• Don’t get caught confusing money with security. There are lots of ways to build a life that’s more secure, starting with the stories you tell yourself, the people you surround yourself with and the cost of living you embrace. Money is one way to feel more secure, but money alone won’t deliver this. Seth Godin

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…or true wealth…

• Some people are so poor, all they have is their money. Blake Griffin
• Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money. John Spence
• Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends. Henrik Ibsen
• It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things money can’t buy. George Horace Lorimer
• Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. Henrik Ibsen

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…but nor does poverty

• Let us be done with thinking poverty is a virtue. It is a common vice. Catherine Ponder
• Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty. Leo Rosten
• Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen
• A full purse is not as good as an empty one is bad. Yiddish Proverb
• Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation. Napoleon Hill
• It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard
• Our first duty is not to be poor. George Bernard Shaw
• Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen
• I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention. Ron Kittle
• It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus
• I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock. Henny Youngman
• Money can’t buy everything but then again neither can no money.
• Money isn’t everything as long as you have enough. Forbes’s Law

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We live in a society that has trouble realising that money does not buy all

• This is not just a simple story of money can’t buy happiness. Or maybe that’s just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn’t it be? Because if this is something we are already supposed to know, then why don’t we know it? Why do we chase and scrabble and fight for things to flaunt, why? Why do we reach for power over other people, and through the thin superiority of our possessions, believe we have it? Why do we let money make people bigger, and allow those without it to be made smaller? How did we lose the truth in the frantic, tribal drumbeat of more, more, more? Deb Caletti
• Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. Zig Ziglar
• We know intellectually that money can’t buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does. Michelle Singletary

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Money does not bring happiness but they can co-exist

• Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together. Stephen Richards
• The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are. Robert Kiyosaki

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Lack of money, on the other hands, tends to make us stressed and unhappy

• Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. James A. Baldwin

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Money makes us more of what we already are

• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving. Dan Millman
• Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. Will Smith
• Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.  Elbert Hubbard

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It is attachment to money that can make us unhappy

• A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift
• When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy. Pope Francis
• I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. Pablo Picasso

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Money cannot make us happy in itself, but it does come with advantages….

• Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many of the things that make you unhappy. Robert Anthony
• Within very wide bands, more money doesn’t make people happier. Learning how to think about money, though, usually does. Seth Godin
• Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness. Robert Kiyosaki
• Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories. Ronald Reagan
• Money can’t buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery. Joan Rivers
• Money can’t buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves. Joe Louis
• It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer. George S. Clason
• Money can’t buy happiness—but it can buy beer. Gary Reilly
• Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. Gordon Livingston
• Money can’t buy happiness but it’ll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch. James Lee Burke
• Money isn’t everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children. Paul Getty

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…even if only to buy a more comfortable form of misery

• Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. Spike Milligan
• Money can’t buy happiness but it’s more comfortable to cry in a Bugatti than on a bicycle. Miguel Torres
• Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. Clare Boothe Luce
• Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. Andre Gide
• When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can’t buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy.  Adi Da
• While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. Groucho Marx
• Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. Helen Gurley Brown
• Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. Spike Milligan
• Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.

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If you are determined to make money, then make sure you enjoy the process rather than relying on the attainment to make you happy

• Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making the money. John Wicker
• A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end. Albert Camus

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Money in itself may not bring happiness but sharing it usually does

• Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth… Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. John Templeton
• Whoever said money can’t buy happiness wasn’t spending it helping people who needed it. Keshia Chante
• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Norman MacEwen

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True happiness comes from what money can’t buy

• It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things money can’t buy. George Horace Lorimer
• The best things in life are free Luther Vandross

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Time is more precious than money

• Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. Jim Rohn
• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg
• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg

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Happiness comes more from nurturing inner values than money

• These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they don’t have enough of it they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves, and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values. Dalai Lama
• If you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. Henry Kravis
• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. Henry Ward Beecher

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Happiness comes from doing what you love doing

• You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you. Maya Angelou

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Happiness comes from friendship

• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go. Margaret Walker

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Happiness comes from within, not without, and it is now

• The great Western disease is, ‘I’ll be happy when… When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It’s in here. And happiness is not next week. It’s now. Marshall Goldsmith
• If you have needing money in your vibration, then you will keep attracting needing money. You have to find a way of being happy NOW, feeling good NOW, and being in joy NOW, without the money, because those great feelings are how you will feel with the money. Money doesn’t bring happiness – but HAPPINESS BRINGS MONEY. Rhonda Byrne

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Some argue money can buy happiness…

• Anyone who tells you money can’t buy happiness never had any. Samuel L. Jackson
• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde
• Money is human happiness in the abstract. Arthur Schopenhauer
• It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich. Alan Alda

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…especially in the form of temporary pleasure

• Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop. Gertrude Stein
• If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it. Al Yankovic
• I guess money can’t buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places. Nora Roberts
• Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping. Bo Derek
• You know they say money can’t buy happiness. Give me 50 bucks and watch me smile Bobby Heenan
• Money can’t buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

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On a lighter note

• What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money. Henny Youngman
• Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million. Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Money can’t buy happiness, unless you’re favorite hooker’s name is ‘Happiness’. Dov Davidoff
• Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money. Jackie Mason
• The best things in life are free – and $19.95. Billy Mays
• Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. Spike Milligan
• Money can’t buy happiness, but it can help you look for it quicker, in a convertible.
• Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.  David Lee Roth
• Money doesn’t buy happiness; but happiness isn’t everything. Jean Seberg
• Money frees you from doing things you dislike; since I dislike doing nearly everything money is handy. Groucho Marx
• Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.  Bill Vaughan