Happiness Can't Buy Quotes & Sayings

Money can't buy you happiness but it buys you all the things you don't have, even friends. — PewDiePie

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop. — Kathy Lette

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. — Christopher Marlowe

You know they say money can't buy happiness. Give me 50 bucks and watch me smile — Bobby Heenan

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 can't buy you happiness. It just helps you look for it in more places. — Milton Berle

The myth of true love is one of the greatest self-deceptions ever embraced by the female sex. It's right up there with the ridiculous notion that money can't buy happiness and size doesn't matter. — J.T. Geissinger

They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby! — Ben Affleck

You may get an emotional thrill when you first buy something, but emotions are fickle. You buy that one thing you think will complete your happiness, but after awhile the feeling goes away and you have to go to the next thing. You just keep going from purchase to purchase looking for the one thing that will finally satisfy. But stuff can't satisfy. — Joyce Meyer

Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies. — Gene Hill

Money Can't Buy Happiness but It Beats the Hell out of Poverty — Sharon Law Tucker

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. — Bo Derek

Anyone who thinks money can't buy happiness has never owned a cat [or any pet]. — Arya Riverdale

What good is money if it can't buy happiness? — Agatha Christie

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

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. — Leo Rosten

Walk on your own yellow brick road. If you can't find one, spray paint your way into happiness. If that doesn't work, buy yellow shoes. — Sadiqua Hamdan

Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery. — Kerry Greenwood

An Oxford degree or owning a successful business or a perfect looking body does NOT guarantee inner-happiness, peace of mind, self-love, and a loving relationship. — Maddy Malhotra

When I look at you, I still see the son I love more than my own life. But I also see a man who has become so far removed from what matters that his perception is skewed. Family is real, son. A home to settle into - that's real. People who love you and care about you. You've had a phenomenal career, and I'm proud of you. But it's time to stop basing your worth on championships and endorsement deals. You can't buy happiness. You can't earn it. God isn't counting all the deals you're racking up - and neither is your family." He lifted his brow. "And neither is Lucy. For the first time someone's looking at the person inside - and you have to decide if you're going to let her in and be the man she needs you to be." His father turned his head toward a family picture on the mantel. "It's a risk. But one I've never regretted. — Jenny B. Jones

Money can buy some things to create happiness, but it can never buy happiness. — Ellen J. Barrier

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it. — David Lee Roth

What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it's amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I'm like, 'Oh, so I guess that wasn't really happiness.' — Kylie Jenner

Money can't buy you happiness, darling. Believe me, I've tried." "But it affords your own brand of misery. — Blake Crouch

Peace and satisfaction are the two most expensive things in life. You can never buy them, you can only generate them for yourself, and those around you. — Mehek Bassi

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. — Pete Rose

Because money can't buy the happiness of a good and understanding spouse. — Jenny Lawson

Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever. — Besa Kosova

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to sail right up along side it. — David Lee Roth

Put money in it's place. Money can buy you cars, houses, trinkets, fleeting sex, shallow companionship, cheap attention, and unfulfilled status. However, it can't buy you peace, love, or happiness. — Ernie J Zelinski

No matter how hard you try ... you just can't buy other people their happiness. It must be installed inside them first! — Timothy Pina

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.
— James Lee Burke

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can sure as hell solve a lot of problems! — Robert Rolih

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. — Henny Youngman

Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for. — Lapo Elkann

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places. — Nora Roberts

What I like about cooking is that, so long as you follow the recipe exactly, everything always turns out perfect. It's too bad there's no recipe for happiness. Happiness is more like pastry - which is to say that you can take pains to keep cool and not overwork the dough, but if you don't have that certain light touch, your best efforts still fall flat.
The work-around is to buy what you need. I'm talking about pastry, not happiness, although money does make things easier all around. — Josh Lanyon

Why waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit rating will allow? Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it will hold even more. — Ernie J Zelinski

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness. — John Caudwell

Money can't buy happiness. But it sure can rent it for a while. — Kim Gruenenfelder

There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness. — Ray Kroc

Sometimes we don't believe what we see, another time We no want to see something, but there is a Time we are happy to see Something.
Happy day my Friend I know I'm crazy, but in my Dreams I'm happy and that nobody can buy.
Jan Jansen — Jan Jansen

You can't buy happiness. You can't earn it. God isn't counting all the deals you're racking up. — Jenny B. Jones

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. — Groucho Marx

Money can't buy you happiness, but happiness sure is a hell of a lot easier to find when you're not worried about where your next meal is coming from. — Christina Lauren

Where do we find happiness? Unfortunately, the common belief with most people is that happiness is something that happens to them when conditions are just right rather than something that happens through them when they choose to make space for it. While outer conditions may stimulate the feeling of happiness, it can never come from anywhere other than within us. Authentic happiness isn't something we can go out and get, buy, borrow, or steal. Nor can any form of artificial sensory stimulus generate true happiness; it's only something we can be, and it's a choice we make with every breath we take. — Dennis Merritt Jones

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. — Clare Boothe Luce

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves. — Joe Louis

Money can't buy happiness, unless you're favorite hooker's name is 'Happiness'. — Dov Davidoff

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. — Spike Milligan

Maybe money can't buy happiness, but it can rent it for a long time. — Don Winslow

yeah, you can't buy happiness — Kurt Cobain

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any. — Samuel L. Jackson

We know intellectually that money can't buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does. — Michelle Singletary

Though the platitude - money can't buy happiness - may be comforting to those who are less than well heeled, great wealth doesn't ensure sadness either. — Bill Dedman

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks. It'll buy you relief, status, friends, safety ... all sorts of things. — Marie Lu

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion. — Herbie Hancock

Money can't buy everything." "Someone must have told you that. You'd never think of such a platitude all by yourself. What can't it buy?" "Oh, well, I don't know - not happiness or love, anyway." "Generally it can. And when it can't, it can buy some of the most remarkable substitutes. — Margaret Mitchell

If money can't buy you happiness then you probably aren't making enough. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Life isn't about having, it's about being. You could surround yourself with all that money can buy, and you'd still be as miserable as a human can be. I know people with perfect bodies who don't have half the happiness I've found. On my journeys I've seen more joy in the slums of Mumbai and the orphanages of Africa than in wealthy gated communities and on sprawling estates worth millions. Why is that? You'll find contentment when your talents and passion are completely engaged, in full force. Recognise instant self-gratification for what it is. Resist the temptation to grab for material objects like the perfect house, the coolest clothes or the hottest car. The if I just had X, I would be happy syndrome is a mass delusion. When you look for happiness in mere objects, they are never enough. Look around. Look within. — Nick Vujicic

You can't buy happiness — Kurt Cobain

Those rich guys were right. Money can't buy happiness, because happiness is everywhere. It's free, like air. — Donald Jans

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness. — Daniel Kahneman

When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference it makes in terms of human betterment, represents the kind of happiness that money really can buy. — Henry Townley Heald

Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. — Gordon Livingston

If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it. — Al Yankovic

If money could buy us happiness then some of the richest people on earth would be more than one million times more happier! — Avijeet Das

Money will never buy happiness, but managing your money well can provide the peace of mind that will allow you to focus your family on what matters most. — Devin D. Thorpe

Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom. — Scott Adams

A person can be miserable in a mansion and happy in a shack."

"Money will not buy happiness. It's merly the lack of it that can cause much of our misery. — Leon Forte

Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give your money to us. — Denise Fields

Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories. — Ronald Reagan

Money almost always ends up disappointing.
Buying things to give lasing satisfaction is an illusion. Money can't buy happiness. The people with the most money are often times the MOST miserable people. — Lisa Bedrick

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character. — Zig Ziglar

Money can't buy happiness but it's more comfortable to cry in a Bugatti than on a bicycle. — Miguel Torres

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it. — Daniel Gilbert

Table 29.1. "AA" (Avoid/Acquire) of Fighting Cancer. In closing, let me also share my new found philosophy of life: A good life is summarized in three "H's." They are, in order of importance: Happiness, Health, and . . . hmm, I forget the third one!!! Good luck in your fight and remember to stay Happy and Positive. After all, the reason it is said "you can't buy happiness" is that because it is free! — Donald I. Abrams

Money can't buy your happiness, but it can buy others. — Anonymous

Money can't buy happiness, but it allows one to endured unhappiness in relative comfort. — Stephen King

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places. — Milton Berle

I find it surreal, then perfectly normal. I'm struck by how fast the surreal becomes the norm. I marvel at how unexciting it is to be famous, how mundane famous people are. They're confused, uncertain, insecure, and often hate what they do. It's something we always hear - like that old adage that money can't buy happiness-but we never believe it until we see it ourselves. Seeing it in 1992 brings me a new measure of confidence. — Andre Agassi

I'm not here to sell nor am I here to buy. I just hope my words can help you touch the sky. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Money can't buy marital happiness, but you can buy a sports car to get away as quickly as you can when your wife is angry with you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments. — Erich Fromm

Money can't buy happiness. — Howard Hughes

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff. — David Mitchell

Like how there's this optimal money/happiness equation. Once you pass a certain amount of household income, life isn't any better. Apparently, money can't buy happiness, or it does, but it costs less than you imagined it would. — Catherine McKenzie

Writer Leo Rosten famously quipped: 'Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.' The — Ashwin Sanghi

You can't buy happiness, but you can buy books and that's kind of the same thing. — Anonymous

Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness. — Carew Papritz

While self-help and science-of-happiness books fill whole quadrants of bookstores, the fact that business is booming is a verdict unto itself: We may buy each new bestseller on the power of positivity, but each fresh purchase suggests its lack. As much as we wish it were true, we can't seem to prove that the positive thinking industry is working itself out of a job. — William McDavid

Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one ... " "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room. — Maggie Stiefvater

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character. — Richelle E. Goodrich

You cannot force a person to respect you like you cannot buy love but you can refuse anyone who doesn't do these things freely a pass into your life. — Keysha Jade

I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that. — Criss Angel

I look at Paris Hilton, think about her parents' fortune and her grandparents' fortune. She thought she had it all together. A whole lot of people think that, that when you got money you can do anything you want to do. But I want to tell you there are some things money can't do for you; Money can buy you a house, but can't buy you a home; Money can buy you food to put on your table, but can't buy an appetite; Money can buy you one of the most finest matresses in the world, but can't buy you sleep. — Various

The idea that someone could, or would want to, experience uninterrupted happiness over a period of days, let alone years, is ludicrous.

Anyone who feels pleasant and bubbly all the time is either mentally disabled or hooked on crack.

Money, on the other hand, is steady. You can spend it, invest it or light a little bit on fire in an intern's ass. Either way, money gets to sleep over.

Money is a resource that makes it easier for you to find your purpose and achieve your goals, not because you are buying happiness, but because you are eliminating the desperation that drains happiness and distracts you from your purpose. — Ari Gold

Fight, fight, fight and get that money, money, money. 'Cause happiness can't buy even a nickel. — Ari Gold

Why is everybody so obsessed? Money can't buy us happiness — Jessie J.

Money can't buy you happiness. — Anonymous