Do people live for personal satisfaction or money?
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The love of money is the root of all evil.\n\nNot money itself, but the LOVE or GREED of it.\n\nA person cannot truly be happy in life, if their focus is on "getting" more money.\n\nWe should earn to live, not live to earn.
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Hi, for some reason money is like a disease everyone wants but they don't realize the harm it causes. Money is power for most people. Most people who get a good education more easily find good jobs with a better pay. However, sometimes a person without a high education can also get a good job. People are misconceived into thinking that money is everything when its not. Money doesn't lead to happiness. On the contrary, happiness is being happy with what you have not matter how much that is.
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Money doesn't buy happiness it just buys things that makes you happy. Happiness comes from within not from c-notes.
541319
poor and happy. no question. you can work for money or hope to come across some, but being miserable SUCKS and i dont care how much money you have, things you buy, whatever-- you will never be truely happy.
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definitely not, a person's value is measured on the way he had lived his life whether it is profitable to other people   or not  in terms of moral standards,and not necessarily the amount  of money left behind,  it is said a good name is better than silver or gold.
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Would rather go to heaven.\nToo much money, I presume makes ones life not truly happy, too many people likes to meet you like you or try to meet you and you end up having no time for yourself nor your family anymore. There's not a total peace of mind either for you're always watching out your back who's a real friend or whose only after your wealth, makes you paranoid sometimes! So, if you don't know how to deal the kind of wealth Mr. Bill Gates have, you end up being eccentric as well as unhappy deep within you! Did you also notice people who have too much money kind of weird? \nBetter be an average person who lives life comfortably as well as having peace of mind at the end of the day.
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i am somewhat happy. i mean i can't complain because i have a roof over my head, food to eat, a job and my health. but wishful thinking, i would like a little more money to own a home and not struggle with it and in the relationship part i would like to be more happy.
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Well, that depends on your definition of "the good things in life."  The good things in life can come from just being and doing, not buying.  It's truly all a state of mind.  Being happy and content with what you have, and not always wanting more, can make a person happy.  Of course, it's human nature to always want more; and when we see so many material things in front of us all the time (magazines, tv, etc.), it's easy to get in the trap of always wanting more, more, more.  I'm not trying to be hypocritical here, because I'm the same as everyone out there, I love nice things too.  I've just found over time however, that I can be just as happy having less, as opposed to having more.  Does that make any sense?
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if i live happily with no health (health is very important in life) problem, financial problem,(i dnt have to b millionaire but i have enough money to live hapily and able to do what i want.Good relationship with ppl around me..family, colleagues, friends,etc. Enjoy my life everyday. Play hard, work hard..... live life to the full!!!
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Happiness is a choice. Your circumstances don't get to decide if you have a happy life or not. Only you do. The people you are referring to just haven't figured it out yet. They're still blaming the world, circumstances, others for their problems. If they would just learn to appreciate what they do have and be happy more good things would continue to come into their experience. Dr. Wayne Dyer says "what you focus on expands" and he's right. I've tried it and compeletely turned my life around.
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To find happiness.  It doesn't really matter what you do, or how much money you have, as long as you are happy.  there are going to be hard times, but you must learn from them and use that knowledge to improve the rest of your life and increase your happiness.
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Wealth doesn't make people happy. It usually makes them possessive, cranky, avaricious, greedier, mean, nasty, stressed, etc., because all they can think about is making more money and protecting the money that they already have.
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Any job I can enjoy doing that would allow me the benefit of taking care of my family comfortably is fine with me.  Money can buy many things but nothing of value.\nAnd realistically, an income is a spending limit, you know how much you can spend until next pay day and the more we have the more we want so instead of killing yourself to make it up the corporate latter in the world to enjoy spending money on material things, which can all be wiped away at the drop of a dime like my things I lost during Hurricane Katrina, all the money in the world couldn't replace family pictures, souvenirs, awards, certificates, heirlooms, etc... try enjoying life!
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I am 27, married, 2 little girls 3 1/2 and 10 months, and I had a good job with a bank until 2 weeks ago. And no, none of that guaranteed happiness. Happiness comes from accepting who you are, what you want, and working to make youself the best person you can be. No oustide factors will change that. They may add to it, enhance it, make it more convenient, but they will not be what makes you happy.
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I don't think that is such a thing as a FulFilled liFe becuase everyone will keep wanting more and more.  Now, I know that this isn't true For everyone, but For most people I know it is.  And, to answer the First question, I am not FulFilled in any area oF my liFe.  I wish my job payed better, I wish I had a better car, I wish I would do more For mankind, etc.
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Whatever gives you gratification.  Money, Power, focus, status, involvement, coworkers, Boss, commute, nature of the job etc.  However, some people can't be pleased! They are complainers and complaning is what makes them happy. So if you have some of these make sure you give them more to complain about.  The more you give them the happier they are. They don't show it really but deep inside they are really happy.
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Yes, I agree.  Money can buy comfort, luxury, material things. You name it, it's for sale.  When people are saying it can't buy you happiness, they are thinking happy like forever. But nothing is "forever".\n\nI like having money.  I really, really do.  And I enjoy it and am happy when my wallets is fat with it  Hey! And I feel HAPPY!