Emotional Wealth Quotes

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.

Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.

I'm genuinely, near and dear, truly rich.

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

Happiness is more important than money any day.

Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.