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    “It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy” a quote by George Horace Lorimer. This quote is trying to say that money can get you the material things like clothes, a car, and a house. They are good things because they are things that you want and maybe need to survive. However, you also need to make sure you still have the things that you cannot buy with money such as love and happiness

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    Can money buy everything, including money? Some people think that money can buy everything. Does that include happiness? Can money really buy happiness? Different people have different opinion about this as well as the definition of happiness that varies through people. According to the dictionary, happiness is the state of being happy. “Happiness is not just a state of mind but it is a state of emotion.” Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, theorises that while 60% of happiness

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    shelter, and healthcare that money provides us, but does it offer true happiness? Before we can answer this puzzling question first let's understand what true happiness is. Happiness, true happiness is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy. This quote is by Dada Vaswani

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    Money Talks Happiness is known to be a state of mind that causes immense joy or pleasure. Happiness is known as satisfaction, joy, pleasure, or even delight. Happiness is not money. The world has the current conviction that money can buy happiness. Digging up America’s deepest roots, money has always been “the root” of happiness. Even the American dream has a base foundation that money is the key to everything. American authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Lorraine Hansberry wrote of characters

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    an action. Happiness in life consists of certain way of life, not a specific qualities and character. Pursuit of wealth does not equal happiness. Aristotle believed that telos was the ultimate happiness and there was no further happiness beyond it. Happiness was based around someone's whole life not just moments. Pursuit of wealth does not equal happiness. Having a lot of money

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    anything, it is not only with money it can be with family or friends. Money doesn’t buy happiness because money does not stay with the owner. In the play A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Scrooge would think that his happiness was with all the money. Scrooge was a grumpy, mean, and didn’t care about anyone. Marley his partners for business was just like him but now he is paying for it. “This are the Cratchits, Mr. Scrooge. They are not highly special. They are happy, grateful, please with one

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    How does contemporary view of materialism impact contemporary understanding of happiness? What is happiness? In order to be truly happy people need to be able to understand that everything is good within their own life and that they are able to be happy with the people that are in their life and the people that influence how they live their daily life. However, a lot of people talk about money can buy you happiness. Money is the most important thing in everybody’s life. People need money to buy food

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    want to be happy. Some people are happy for just a few hours by taking a nap, others can find happiness by in a day by going shopping and some who inherit money can be happy for a year. In the Webster dictionary happy is defined as "feeling pleasure and enjoyment because of your life, situation, etc." Many people believe that having money will get them the pleasure and enjoyment in life that will make them feel happy. They think that money can buy them happiness. This may be true but money can also

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    Money is great to have but, it could lead to great sorrow. As this was shown in “The Necklace” and “The Gift of The Magi”. In “The Necklace” Mme. Losiel wanted to look rich for her evening ball but, she lost the necklace she borrowed because she lost the necklace she had to work for ten years to pay the necklace off. In “The Gift of The Magi” Delia cut her hair so she had enough money to get her husband a nice chain for his watch but, he sold his watch to get her a nice set of combs. Money does not

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    Money Happy Rough Draft There will never be a moment where you are happy if you are alone with nothing else but money. Having money will not be the reason you are happy in life. The way to be actually happy in life is to have the things money can’t buy like being with your loved ones , something else money does is consume a person in a negative way . In a point of your life you realize that money cannot buy everything, and you start regretting most of your actions. For example, My oldest cousin

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