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You can never have too much money. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#lottery #lottery-tickets #materialism #materialism-versus-spiritualism #money

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have. ↗

— Robert B. Reich

#happiness #money

You have savings?" she was astonished. As a woman who lived on the very extreme edges of her budget, whose credit card bills were a source of monthly concern, the idea of savings was just so alien. But then this was Ed, a different kind of person altogether. "Why do I know nothing about your savings?" she'd asked. "I wonder!" he'd answered with a smile. "Maybe because I don't want my savings to be translated into "really great investments" like Miu Miu shoes or Hermès handbags. ↗

— Carmen Reid

#money #shopaholic #shopping #money

Quienquiera que se inventase eso de que el dinero no hace la felicidad, se regocija Lloyd Hooks, está claro que no tenía bastante. ↗

— David Mitchell

#español #felicidad #happiness #money #spanish

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#happiness #money #poor #rich #wealth

True happiness lies in things money can not buy. ↗

— Sachidanand Das

#money

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise. ↗

— Mark Sundeen

#self-awareness #money

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man. ↗

— Frédéric Chopin

#music #music

He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I offered myself every pleasure. I traveled a great deal. I lost some money dabbling in the theatre, but I made much more dabbling on the Bourse. I gained a great many amusing friends, some of whom are now quite famous. But I was never very happy. I suppose I was fortunate. It took me only five years to discover what some rich people never discover — that we all have a certain capacity for happiness and unhappiness. And that the economic hazards of life do not seriously affect it. ↗

— John Fowles

#rich #unhappiness #money

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#materialism #money #satirical #success #money