Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
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Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.
I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.
Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.
Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.
Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy.
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
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