What I Really Want, Money Can’t Buy

Can money buy happiness?

One of my quotes is What I really want, money can’t buy.  For these past years, whenever someone asks me what I would like for my birthday or Christmas, that is usually my response.

Money could provide us with the basic necessities and luxuries, which could make us happy, but it can’t buy feelings, emotions, world peace, academic achievements, love, justice, and many abstract things.  Many wealthy people are not happy, proving that money isn’t everything.

Mother Theresa said, The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.  That is true, because money can buy bread, but not love.  Love is formed socially, and to gain love, we have to provide love to others.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson stated, ‘Tis nobel to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets.  He is right because while coronets are very expensive, kind hearts are priceless and more important.  It is what keeps the world together and turning.  It supports my own quote, There is no such thing as gender, race, creed, abilities, physical traits, or social class, but there is such thing as personality. We need to plunge the surface: the interior is more important.  Of all the traits in people, having a good personality is the most important, the key to happiness.