Terry McMillan Quotes

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.

It doesn't matter if you have one billion rupees in your bank account or one rupee. This is one life you get, and you'd rather spend it enjoying whatever you have, rather than thinking, 'Oh, I should have scored seven more runs, or I should get more money.'

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

Money will not make you happy. It's most important that you need to be happy. You need to do something you want to do.

Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.

Money, to me, is just a mode of transportation that I use to get around but not enough to get me where I really want to be: to a world of bliss and happiness.

If money does not make you happy, give it back

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.