Happiness Cannot Be Bought Quotes

#1. Though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

Ellen Glasgow

#2. Happiness cannot be bought by money,
cannot be acquired by degrees,
cannot be realized by power,
and cannot be earned by honor;
but can be won by kindness,
gained by charity,
attained by goodness,
and achieved by love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. Somewhat melancholy happiness of offering an object one likes, and that one had bought for oneself!

Herve Guibert

#4. Hookers and governments they are both whores. Hookers sell their own body and governments, the poor people's.

M.F. Moonzajer

#5. Who can wish for happiness that is bought at the price of reason, whose fleeting pleasures are at least followed by regret, if not remorse?

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

#6. Happiness is not a destination. It cannot be bought, sold or traded. Happiness is the gift of the journey.

Lisa Cypers Kamen

#7. Fun can be bought with money, but happiness cannot.

Dave Ramsey

#8. You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery ... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand that. We believe
believed
that happiness was a natural condition of reasoning beings.

Michael Moorcock

#9. We have too quickly bought into the lie that we'll be happier with more - and as a result, too often miss the joy that comes from owning less.

Joshua Becker

#10. I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#11. You'll get your head shot off, Jem.

Harper Lee

#12. He learned not to mind the silences.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#13. If I buy a car, I use the car, you don't, and the market for cars works pretty well. But there are many other sorts of goods, often very important goods, which are not provided well through the market. Often, these go under the heading of public goods.

Eric Maskin

#14. Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

Tim Ferriss

#15. When you follow the right steps you will never get lost.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Linda Evans

#17. Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

Steve Scott

#18. The darling wish of his sisters was then gratified; he bought an estate in a neighbouring county to Derbyshire, and Jane and Elizabeth, in addition to every other source of happiness, were within thirty miles of each other.

Jane Austen

#19. If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?

Ernie J Zelinski

#20. In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.

Brad Delson

#21. Here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.

Thomas De Quincey

#22. Happiness can be thought, taught and caught ... but not bought.

Harvey MacKay

#23. Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it's quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions.

April Gornik

#24. We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

Jack Kornfield

#25. Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

Stevie Wonder

#26. At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.

Karen Russell

#27. Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a liberty available to anyone.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. Nothing is as precious as your love. Nothing can buy it, but with it, you bought me so many times.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Fame is bought by happiness.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#30. If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.

Patrick Dixon