What do you think about this topic?

I dont believe that money brings happiness - just more comfort (and maybe a bit less stress!).

I believe we all have equal amounts of happiness and sadness - it has nothing to do with wealth. A poor child in Africa may experience the same joy from being given a football as a rich US kid might have from receiving an expensive XBox. Even at our most desperate times, we still seem to have equal amounts of sadness and happiness.

I also think that you appreciate the things you buy more if you had to work hard to pay for them!!

Thia is a Turkish proverb=

" Mal ve mülke güvenme, zenginlik bir yalandan başka şey değildir"
" Dont trust property, riches is nothing else than a lie"

I don't know that money brings happiness, but it sure helps. But I also view things as instant gratifications. You buy a new car excited to drive it and after awhile the newness wears off. You go on a shopping spree, love the new cloths you have then after awhile they sit in your closet.

But then you have people like Britney Spears and other hollywood celebrities who have so much money they don't know what to do with it. They live a self destructive life and have all the money in the world, yet they still don't have happiness.

I think you have to find happiness from with in, I don't believe people or material things can buy you happiness. That's just my personal thoughts.

when i win millions in a lottery i will be the most happy woman under the sun

MrX.....just so you know...I am very poor!

No, but in our consumist, capitalist , driven by the marketing it surely does for a lot of people

Yilgun, your questions remind me of an old TC user, are you sure you're not duskahvesi? He had the same way of asking questions and never saying what or if he had any thoughts about them

As for whether money gives you happiness - I volunteer to test it! TC members may want to chip in now to provide me with resources.

poor and rich so relative terms,and sometime not easy to meassure of that with only money i think?and yes no need to be all dreamer sure life is easier and more colourfull with the money,but i think musn't be once aim to make more and more paper or metal stocks,and not easy to understand that human pshycology how can a human can be slave of money,noone of us can't take a sock even together us when passing away.İts ok to be hardworker,thrifty or determined but never yes for to be very stingy or selfish.İsn't world suffering with this great problem controdox of saving and sharing????

money does not bring happiness but it is impossible to be happy without money..sad but true!

Money absolutely brings happiness!!! How can you argue that it doesn't? However, it brings you very short-term happiness. True sustained happiness comes from within. It can't be given to you by other people, money, circumstances...nor can it be taken away.

I am quite willing to carry out an experiment to find out if money DOES buy happiness.
Please PM me with your bank details (credit cards also accepted) and I will report back

I was there first!

money is 2 faced power,one side angelic other side devilish,depends on you looking on which side

Money is an object. It has no good or bad qualities itself. It is what you do with money that can make you happy or not. Money itself may give you happiness only if you like putting coins or notes on/into your body. Otherwise it does not stimulate you.

I disagree that money can't give you happiness. If you are a positive person with a sensible approach to life the ...why not? Having money doesn't mean that you no longer are able to appreciate life. Having money doesn't mean that you cannot love or be loved.

The only threat about money is that some people are obsessed with it. And some others will be unhappy regardless of whether rich or poor. That's the human nature. Some of us can't be pleased.

Money does not bring happiness, but it does make being sad a lot more comfortable

http://www.slideshare.net/targetseo/how-to-became-a-rich-inspirational-story

ofcourse it does bring happiness as long as you know how to use it

Well said, Sui!

I don't think money bring happiness at all. I've known some fabulously wealthy people, and they did not have happy lives.

They were always pursued by gold diggers and people not interested in them for themselves, but rather what they could gain monetarily from knowing them. It made it difficult to have "real" relationships.

Read about these people and then ask yourself about how happy money will make you.

Doris Duke

Howard Hughes