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There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
Sep 17, 2025
We know intellectually that money can't buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does.
Money can't buy happiness.
If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.
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.
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?
Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.
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.
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.
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.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.
Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?
They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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. .
Money can't buy happiness but it's more comfortable to cry in a Bugatti than on a bicycle.
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
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.
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
The best things in life are free - and $19.95.
The best things in life are free
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.
Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer.
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.
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.
Animism is not a belief system, but a worldview: The world is a sacred place and we are part of it. The factuality of this statement is not the issue. To say that the world is a sacred place is to make a statement about values, not facts. It’s a statement about what you mean by ‘sacred,’ just as ‘Money can’t buy happiness’ is a statement about what you mean by ‘happiness.’ To put it all very simply, animism isn’t a belief system, it’s a value system.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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.
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
Being popular is the most important thing in the world!
Family is the most important thing in the world.