It buys temporary materialistic happiness that will end once it is over used. Money can never buy you love, family, and true friends which are the keys to happiness. It will buy you fake friends and once your money is over, those friends are over too.

Money only buys happiness for a short time. It is like Christmas Day when you are nine. You play with that new toy for a week or two then it just becomes one of the many toys you have, nothing special. Money works the same way, another day another new toy. Trying to buy happiness is like a dog chasing its own tail. Around and around he goes trying to catch something that he cannot. Happiness will never be bought.

money can buy things which bring happiness, and in that sense, yes it can buy happiness. but then again it also depends on each individuals definition of happiness. it may buy one person happiness yet bring another nothing.

Money not only can't bring happiness, in some cases it can actually bring UNhappiness. Think about it. Say you somehow end up with several million dollars. You end up getting in a fight with one of your friends, who then comes back and apologizes to you. Or hell, it could be even simpler than that--you start dating someone. How do you know if they really like you, or just your money? You don't. You'll never know for sure who your true friends are again, and you'll always wonder. You'll have to spend the rest of your life watching out for the huge numbers of phonies that just want your money. I can't imagine anyone being very happy in that kind of situation.

in our capitalistic society, success is measured by how many material things you have (the biggest thing being money). i believe that money will boost your pride to a point where you are over confident and cocky. todays politicians are going through that process right now. pride is the root of our economis problems today.bank owners politicians, basically anyone with a high authority are stealing money to fuel their pride. the zen masters of our world today, people that have reached true happiness, have let go of material things. Remember, you dont own things, they own you.

it most certainly can not buy you happiness. it can only buy you material things.

If you want to split hairs, and I do, then you can't say that money buys happiness, although you can buy some very awesome things with money. These are the things that cause happiness. Without money, you can still have happiness, it's just much easier to do it with the money to buy things.

As The Beatles said: "Money Can't Buy Me Love." That is so true and it can only buy temporary happiness. After the money is gone so too will your friends fall by the wayside and certainly a love interest will go as well...unless you met that person and fell in love prior to the windfall of money in your life. Money can only buy material things that will keep you 'happy' for a moment or two, but nothing lasting because you'll always want more and you'll always want newer or better. Money simply makes life easier to live than living without it or living on a lot less.

My dad always tried to buy us out and i know that he does love us but you cant buy love its not right . my mom dosnt have as much money as my dad and she dosnt bother buying me and my older sister out .

Absolutley not! You should be happy without material things.

No it can't. Instead when used this way it works something like a drug. This can be seen by what happens when we try to get happiness with it. We find ourselves needing more and more and more to stay "happy", so it is not really making a true, lasting change.

No, money can't buy you happiness. Happiness lies in family, friends, loved ones and etc

But not having any money at all will cause unhappiness

So in my humble opinion an average person needs:

1.People to be with, love and be loved back

2.Just enough money to get on in life (People in most cases can't balance it out between money and friends)

money cannot buy anything but freedom! corruption breeds corruption absolute! maybe if you had enough money in your pocket when you die, hell would let you buy your way to heaven!!! fools

My friend once said to me "Money can buy things that make you happy therefore money can buy happiness"..i believe that anyone can be happy with or without money...think about it...you have a job that doesn't really pay well your always struggling to get food on the table each week...you have a job that pays great money you can provide all you need for your family and yourself but all your energy gets put into not only keeping your job but doing it well...what are you left with both ways your struggle and your family miss out on getting much of your attention money is the main priority in this society today no argument...it really depends on how you look at a situation to weather you can be happy or not...depending on your mental state i suppose but pretty much money does not buy happiness...the thing thats gets you going through the day is what makes you happy your family of course or friends if you were living in an old shack working hard each day for practically nothing at all at the end of the day when you come home and you see your family there seems to be joy spread right through you so money or no money you can be happy....

My boyfriend just broke up with me, and I'm 100% aware that this, too, shall pass, no amount of money could make me happy right now.

Its obvious that money cant buy us happiness. Even if it does, it would be fake or temporary materialistic happiness. Money can never buy us true happiness e.g. family, friends, love. Money also changes people very quickly, and they get ready to sacrifice whatever they have for it and when they come to their senses everything is gone including that money.

Money can help you, but not create something completely non-existant.

poor science, poor write up.

But it does go to explain why there are so many people willing to pay $1000s per year for fleeting "services" like $4 ice cream cones & $5 cups of coffee (10-25X normal grocery store costs). They pay for "experience" rather than the consumable item. My "hard" purchases always make me happier! I get to see & use them 1000s of times over many years!

first, you must be happy, with or without money. then money can bring more happiness to your life depend on how you spend it. spend it for drugs, or alcohol, then money wont bring you happiness. charity, spend it for other people, that will bring happiness..

I luv shoppng...it makes me happy!!! n I can shop only if I have money... therefore money also makes me happy. bt I can't shop 4ever!!! there r certainly other thngs which r mch more importnt than money!!!

Money is the most obvious measure of one’s status, so it is easy to confuse the two, but they are certainly not the same thing at all. It is easy to point to many evils committed for the sake of status in which money was not involved at all.

I just wanna say that for people who in life just wants to be on teh top, be popular and have status, money can do them happy. But in my point of you the main thing in our life it is to be happy, to have family and health. yes you can spend your money on health, but you can' buy family,love and support. Just imagine your death? what you will think about? about money? nooo. about love,family. You won't bring money with you on the sky, but love will be always with you. I wanna say that choose love, LIFE, enjoy your life withuot money, because it is just nessasary, but not life.

It seems to me beyond any reasonable doubt that with the help of money you cannot buy love and health. For example, if you found that you have cancer and no one medicine can help you and it is inevitably, plenty of money would not help you. People spend all their health to earn money, but in old age they spend all their money to get health. And about love, you cannot get love from person who has not the same feelings, who indifferent to yours and with the help of money you cannot buy the true love

Scientists have proved that, if people are happy they will do their work as good as they can. They believe that people should be happy, and money will take care of themselves " NatGeo TV Faqs".

where went those people who were not greedy for money but for love , friendship................money cannot buy us true love and friendship...we need money but for basic necessities like food , shelter , clothings and now if the mans rich and greedy he needs branded clothes , big houses and a good food.................as mahatma gandhi said"there is enough for everyones naeed but not for anybodies greed"

money cant buy you happiness because it cause greed therfore it makes people unhappy because of the personality they have, money does put you under pressure and does make you merssible because maybe you dont have enough money to pay a bill and if yu dont pay this bill your water will be cut of that puts you under pressure and makes you merrsible how are you thne happy? ?:)

Most people associate happiness with objects or ownership of things.for instance i bet a lot of u will be happy if u got the ps3 or the xbox 360,some of u will be happy if u get a foreign vacation or if u got a magnificient new mansion which had everything u desired.These things can only be bought buy money and power ,therefore u would think that your happiness is dependant on money.But these objects of desire do not give lasting happiness.Sooner or later we get bored of these things and we look forward for the next thing that would give us happiness.This can continue endlessly and take over your life and when we dont get these objects of we become unhappy and dejected,so ironically pursuit of happiness results in unhappiness.Therefore money can not buy happiness

In coffee shops, on commuter trains and over breakfasts of high-fructose corn syrup crunch, millions of people have no doubt pointed to the Martha Stewart headlines the past few days and made some snarky remark like, "See? That shows you that money can't buy happiness."

Certainly Stewart is not happy now that she's been convicted. Last week, when former WorldCom honcho Bernie Ebbers did the perp walk, he didn't look too happy, either. The Enron guys? Same story. Got rich. Not happy.

All might have avoided their fates had they paid more attention to science. There has been an explosion in happiness research lately. The field even has its own peer-reviewed publication called Journal of Happiness Studies, with articles such as "Personality, Psychosocial Variables, and Life Satisfaction of Chinese Gay Men in Hong Kong." (In case you were wondering, they're modestly satisfied with their lives.)

Anyway, the preponderance of scientific research — which runs from studies of the brain to statistical analysis — suggests that money cannot, in fact, buy happiness.

It buys temporary materialistic happiness that will end once it is over used. Money can never buy you love, family, and true friends which are the keys to happiness. It will buy you fake friends and once your money is over, those friends are over too.

Money can't buy you love. Worshipping Mammon foments evil ways. Materialists are shallow and unhappy. The greenback finds itself in tough times these days. Whether it’s Wall Street bankers earning lavish multi-million-dollar bonuses or two-bit city managers in Los Angeles County bringing in higher salaries than President Obama the recessionary economic climate has helped spur outrage and revulsion at those of us collecting undeserved lucre.

Wealthy people have a bad rep. Sure, there are philanthropists like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, who have given billions of their net worth away and have made the world a better, healthier, safer place. But, sadly, they are an exception. American families who make over $300,000 a year donate to charity a mere 4 percent of their incomes. The statistic should not be surprising, as studies by University of Minnesota psychologist Kathleen Vohs and her collaborators have shown that merely glimpsing dollar bills makes people less generous and approachable, and more egocentric.

Now come a new set of studies that reveal yet another toll that money takes. An international team of researchers led by Jordi Quoidbach report in the August 2010 issue of Psychological Science that, although wealth may grant us opportunities to purchase many things, it simultaneously impairs our ability to enjoy those things.

Their first study, conducted with adult employees of the University of Liège in Belgium showed that the wealthier the workers were, the less likely they were to display a strong capacity to savor positive experiences in their lives. Furthermore, simply being reminded of money (by being exposed to a picture of a huge stack of Euros) dampened their savoring ability.

Quoidbach and his colleagues’ second study was even cleverer. Participants aged 16 to 59 recruited on the University of British Columbia campus were entrusted with the not unpleasant task of tasting a piece of chocolate. Before accepting the chocolate, however, they were obliged to complete a brief questionnaire. For half of the participants, this questionnaire furtively included a page with a picture of Canadian money (allegedly for an unrelated experiment), and for the other half, it included a neutral picture.

Although the ostensibly irrelevant photo was unlikely to have elicited more than a cursory glance, it had a pronounced effect on the volunteers’ behavior. Those “primed,” or subconsciously reminded, of money ended up spending less time consuming the chocolate and were rated by observers as enjoying it less.

How to explain these results? The researchers argue that because wealth allows people to experience the best that life has to offer, it ultimately undermines their ability to savor life’s little pleasures. Once we’ve had the opportunity to drink the finest French wines, fly in a private jet, eat foie gras with edible gold leaf, and watch the Super Bowl from a box seat, coffee at Starbucks with a friend, a sunny day after a week of rain, or an unexpected Reese’s peanut butter cup on our desks just doesn't provide the same jolt of happiness it used to. Indeed, a landmark study of lottery winners showed just that: People who had won between $50,000 and $1,000,000 (in 1970s dollars) were less impressed by life’s simple pleasures than people who experienced no such windfall.

A lot of people confuse pleasure with true happiness. But happiness is something that lasts much longer...

Money can't buy happiness. It only helps people to have sth they enjoy with. But just for short period of time.

You can buy a house, but you can't buy cosiness and warnth in it. Money can provide you with a big company that surround you, but it can't give you the true friends, that will love and be with you in any circumstances.

There are so many examples of people that have a lot of money but are very unhappy. And conversely, not so wealthy and rich people can be happy and satisfied with their lives.

I agree with that money can help people be happier. For example if people have money, they cannot worry about their children's future, etc.

But it's very important to not forget about life's true valuables in pursuit of money.

So what is happiness? As Denis Waitley said: "Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."

MONEY CAN'T BUY HAPPINESS! Money is one of the important thing of our life, but happiness is the most important. Some believes that if you have money you can buy everything, but it is wrong. You can not buy feelings. Felling should be true! Happiness depend on person, not on money. You can be happy without money.

Money buys happiness. Not lasting happiness, transient happiness; a cold happiness which melts away after a wile. It's a sad happiness. If one were to get a new computer and feel the jittery ecstatic feeling when one gets something new, one probably wouldn't feel very ecstatic when turning it on only to type an essay for school, or write a memo for work. And if money buys happiness that lasts the in essence that computer should make you happy enough that you don't need to buy another computer, or anything else for that matter until it breaks.

I tend to think it can't, at least not true happiness and the peace that comes with it. Often times people get so materialistic, they want the biggest, best things to show superiority over others and sure they may find happiness for a time with it, but eventually it goes away and they need to work more to get more.

But then, if anyone would like to give me money I'd be happy to test this question out better! ;D

Buying happiness using money, is like loving a person for his/her physical appearance. L Love for these things is sure to please and give a sense of happiness but as these physical appearances change, love for the person vanishes. Similarly, at some point of time when the person runs out of money, the pleasures he gained through them(not materialistic) will not last for long. Thus, proving the fact that there are things that cannot be bought for happiness. Few of such things are life, time, love and health.

Money cant buy happiness, if it ever so, then India would have attained freedom years ago compared to the fact that the country has rich wealth and heritage. we could have bought freedom thus leading to happiness.

Say that you are going for movie, will you go alone.. Of course not, some may go but most of them won't. Because every body knows that watching it with with frnds and families will give more happiness than watching it alone. While watching it alone the happiness will be temperory, that is, it will be limited to the duration of the movie, but watching it with frnds and family will give more happiness that it will become memory, even after many years it will give a smile on your face when you think of it., that is happiness

What I'm trying to say is money will give only temperory happiness, to get a permanent happiness u need frnds and family and I'm not saying that u don't néed money at all, we need money only to meet the basic requirements..