Dalai Lama Quotes

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

The money never mattered. I'm not kidding you. It hasn't really brought me any kind of happiness.

We think these big people are very happy, but the truth is they are worse than us. We are just worried about one thing - hunger; they have a thousand worries.

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

I don't need five Ferraris in my garage to feel great; that's not what matters to me.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Money can't buy happiness.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.