"Money Isn't Everything"?

I'm a student who works at a job that pays minimum wage. I can happily say that money is not everything.

Hey, I'm a teacher, so, of course I don't have, never have had, nor will ever have much money.

It's certainly not everything. Among the many things that money can't buy are peace of mind, love, friendship and happiness.

On the other hand, as the late, great Pearl Bailey once put it:

"Honey, I've been rich and I've been poor, and, believe me, rich is better."

Money is not everything, but it is a LOT.

It really does connect to everything, like when people say being healthy is more important--well, what do you pay the doctor with? Money. Even churches need people to donate money so they can continue to function.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs...

People must be able to have their basic physiological needs for living met before they can think about much of anything else or progress to a higher stage. People must have food, clothing, and shelter before they can worry about world peace or how to achieve spiritual or psychological self-actualization.

So money isn't everything -- but it sure helps. Most people need it to get their basic needs met.

In the Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath's story has an old lady awash in poverty. She tells her husband that being rich is being poor and content and that being poor is being rich and discontent.

Of course, money ISN'T everything. It is what money represents. You need ability to earn money; thus, money is a symbol of your skill.

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I totally agree that " money is not everything," However I certainly like the things that it can buy and what it can do for you. I have developed a good sense and respect for money.

If a person who does't have much money and still say so,then people wil judge it as a case of sour grapes.But if a person having it in plenty says so ,then it caries a lotof weightage

I am a financial analyst. I know that money is a means of exchange, helps to provide us with things we need, and is required for us to be charitable to those who need necessities, especially at this time of year. However, I would like you to read what Robert Kennedy said about this:

"Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product...if we should judge American by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans." Address, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, March 18, 1968.

"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil." Speech, Athens, Georgia, May 6, 1961

I don't have much money, but I don't have to work for the little I get, so I might not count, but I do agree.