Posted on 02/13/2006 10:19:16 AM PST by new cruelty
Ssshhhh!! Ixnay on the uralray living! We don't want our happiness spoiled by the city masses finding out about this! ;-)
Can a billion dollars fullfill your heart and soul?
I'd rather wish that you were happy instead of miserable. Whether you're rich or poor does not matter to me.
Rich people always say that so nobody will want their money.
I'm going to win that $300 million Powerball jackpot on Wednesday night. Once that happens I'll write and let you all know how it feels.
One of my plans is to hold a huge party for the FReepers at the Wyn in Vegas.
Money can buy the nescessities of life. Once those nesessities are met, and you are still not happy, having more money will not make you happy.
Being satisfied with who you are, and with what you have is the road to happiness.
As someone else wrote, money can solve (some) problems. Not all.
Every so often there are those stories about someone hitting the lottery, and in a few short years they are worse off then before they became "rich".
Obviously they don't know where to shop .....
My dad has a saying, "money can't buy happiness, but it sure as hell makes misery a lot easier to live with."
My family fills my heart and my faith fills my soul. A billion dollars would fill my wallet.
I've always heard it phrased, "There ain't no shame in being poor, it's just damned inconvenient!"
Money may not “buy” happiness, but it will make life a bit easier than not having it. There were times I would have been much happier if I didn’t have to worry about paying the electric bill.
Lack of money can sure buy a ton of grief.
What am I supposed to do with all this cash?
Send it to me. Paying off my mortgage so I can spend more time with the children would make me estatic.
Absolutely! Everybody knows there are screwed up rich people but there are also screwed up poor people. Money provides security, freedom of choice, and peace of mind. By peace of mind I mean as in bills paid, able to help others, buy medicine, etc. I say to anyone who thinks money does not buy happiness, go ahead and quit your job and stop your check and just see how happy you can get.
"Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants; money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil?" -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Absolutely agree. And there is this old gem "That man is richest, whose pleasures are cheapest", or something like that.
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