I wonder if it would cure you of all misery if you could afford anything.  :think:

nope. i know a few rich people that are absolutly miserable….those punks…..

I’m not sure but I would love to try it out and see if it works..

[quote author=“hmbldtgrl”]I’m not sure but I would love to try it out and see if it works..

word.

no not really can be at times. *Says my rich spoiled friend who likes to buy me stuff for free*

I think happiness is the secret to money. Because if you are truly happy, you have no want or need for material things.

ya, but how great would it be, to be happy….while driving a ferrari? hehe

I will always want and need expensive material things.. I try not to but I just do..

I will always want and need expensive material things.. I try not to but I just do..

you NEED expensive material things…uh hmm….right….

Meh. I’d be fairly happy with a couple of millions. As far as PURE happiness, well, I don’t know about that.

Money most certainly will not bring happiness, but it sure is nice to have. How about, “Money is one step to happiness?”

=)

I will always want and need expensive material things.. I try not to but I just do..

you NEED expensive material things…uh hmm….right….

yup, I do.. I’m an expensive girl. That is why I have such a good job.

Ok, how about this? Which would you rather do: Work hard and earn millions in your chosen profession, or win the lottery and be a millionaire overnight? Or do you think there wouldn’t be a difference, because either way you’re a millionaire?

I’d take the first one.. you get more from it.

I’d certainly get more gratification if i worked for my own money. if i won the lotto though, i wouldn’t complain too much, heh.

Hahaha, yeah, I wouldn’t complain either!!

If I won the lottery, I bet I would still keep a job. Even if I never HAD to work another day in my life, I would feel like my life was meaningless without some sort of contribution.

I’d be a millionaire overnight. Work is for schmucks =P jk

I wouldn’t care about appreciating it. Lots of people get stuff for not doing it and they appreciate it still. Like this laptop I have—I got it for doing nothing, and I still appreciate. I mean, I use it, don’t I? =P

As far as *how* I get it… ugh… that is so… Zen… LOL Just gimme the money, I say

In my psychology class back in college, my professor said that people experience happiness when they get something they want.  Well, can’t you just buy anything?  Everything has a price.

true that Hector.

It’s always been my theory that money can’t buy happiness but having no money definitely causes sorrow. Money could make my life a lot easier.

can’t buy love (no, prostitution doesn’t count, lol), can’t buy true honest to goodness friends. A few of my friends, unfortunatly have had their parents die in the recent past, you can’t buy them back to life. I know a kid who’s rather well off, pretty friggin rich, has little or no friends though. and the friends that he does have, they use him for his cash.

that is sad.

Well, you’d have to look at what you consider ‘happiness’ not to get all deeply psychological on the forums, but there are those people that are entirely shallow and only concern themselves with money.  Yeah, they have a ferrari, but to be uberobsessive about it is where I draw the line—

I personally love my job, and make a nice salary doing it…I’ve managed to get some nice things, and I’m happy now—but I’ve also been on the other side of the coin—I grew up poverty level, and had a bunch of friends that were in the same income range, I was happy, money/possesions didn’t really concern me; to this day, I still remain friends with 90% of them, and I won’t think twice about going back to where I grew up to see people…In the giant rat race, people lose focus on important things all for the almighty buck—there is a ‘happy-medium’ somewhere in the mix, and finding it is key.

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I know this: I used to think that happiness was a made-up saying, that it was impossible to be happy.

But then I discovered that I was happy the first time I fell in love. So i believe in happiness, and I believe it can’t be bought. What you do with your happiness is up to you.

Money will buy temporary happiness. 

There is always something you want for a certain price.  Whatever you buy makes you happy for a while but then you see something new that you"want” and think that you’ll be happier with the new thing.

There will always be a better car, a faster computer, a television with a better picture, a new game system, etc…

Mon-ay doesn’t buy happiness.
Time does.

[quote author=“8link”]Mon-ay doesn’t buy happiness.
Time does.

Time is money.

Found this on the net the other day:

HAPPINESS:
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a
little.

To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to
understand her at all.