THINGS MONEY CAN'T BUY

Things Money Can't Buy on The Money Café

A Chinese proverb says, "Money cannot purchase what the heart desires." Indeed, here is a list of thirty-three elements that the heart desires and that I challenge you to purchase on the open market or on ebay.

33 Elements of Happiness That Money Can’t Buy

Money cannot buy creativity. Thus, to have a net worth of over one million dollars, put a value on your creativity. Your creativity and ability to generate new ideas and deal with life's problems has to be worth over one million dollars.

Accept that you will never have enough money to solve all your problems. If you can't accept this, then you aren't clear about money. People with great amount of money have just as many problems as the rest of us — sometimes more problems than the rest of us. Just read the daily newspapers and you pay attention to all the trouble rich people are in. 

Here are some quotations to put money into proper perspective:

 Top-10 Things Anybody Ever Uttered about What Money Can Buy and What Money Can't Buy 

The day, water, sun, moon, night . . . . I do not have to purchase these things with money.
— Plautus

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that's poverty.
— Joe E. Lewis 

No amount of money can make others speak well of you behind your back.
— Chinese Proverb

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
— Larry McMurtry

There are many fascinating worlds without money.
— Michael Phillips

No amount of money can make others speak well of you behind your back.
— Chinese proverb

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.
— Unknown wise person

He has all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy — a dinosaur.
— Homer Simpson

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
— Oscar Wilde

Money can't buy real friendship — friendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscience — square dealing is the price tag. Money can't buy the glow of good health — right living is the secret. Money can't buy happiness — happiness is a mental condition and one may be as happy in a cottage as in a mansion. Money can't buy sunsets, songs of wild birds and the music of the wind in the trees — these are as free as the air we breath. Money can't buy inward peace — peace is the result of a constructive philosophy in life. Money can't buy a good character — good character is achieved through decent habits of private living and wholesome dealings in our open contacts with our fellow men.
— Unknown wise person

Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
— Henry Wheeler Shaw

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