Which is better, to be rich in morals, ethics, family and friends (meaning an abundance) or in money?
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Money might buy a lot of stuff, but the richness of family and friends, cannot be purchased by money.  I've been both and now I"m poor and happier than I've ever been in my life - my health is gone, but I have peace, joy, hope, a wonderful husband, a great son, and a family that rallies round in prayer and support.  All my past dollars couldn't buy my health, couldn't buy me peace or joy, a good husband, couldn't have turned my son into a great young man, or caused my family to rally - so if you have chosen to leave the money and gain the greater things in life, then you have chosen well!
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Knowledge might be more profitable than wealth or money, because you can share your knowledge with an infinite number of people (as I do with my blog below).\n\nHowever, if you have a five-dollar bill, you can only give it to one person.\n\nThis is why it is said that intellectual capital is fast becoming MORE powerful and valuable than financial capital.
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Good question.\n\nAnd is is true and sad.\n\nIn our present society privilege, power, and prestige commonly go to those who possess money. For this reasons goals such as fame, fortune, fame, power are a priority in life and tend to run people's lives. But does money prevent illness? Does fame attract happiness? The answer is no. You can buy alot of things if you have money but you cant buy health, love, happiness, friends and although you would have all the money in the world, if you would be sick you wouldnt be able to enjoy them, if you would be alone, without a lover , without friends, again you wouldnt be able to enjoy them, and if you would have all the money in the world and not have all health and love and friendship you wouldnt be happy. \nTodays society , especialy in the developed country does , through media, make everyone want more and more, showing addvertising to quality and expensive products, to expencive autos, to cells, vacations around the world and so on. So a lot of people worry about the money they can earn to then buy those things. But not everyone thinks like that although the people who put first the spiritual and mental richness above the material one are few. Another reason is that today's sociatity is run by envy , for example, the fact that they have to have a better car or a bigger house than their neighbour push people to want more and more money. \nI kept thinking about your question and i asked my grandpa too to find out his opinion. He only gave me this example: "I walked into a bank a few years back, in the middle of a stock take, in jeans and a workshirt, and the woman behind the counter was pretty abrupt. I went in a few days later in a three piece suit and tie, and she was a lot nicer and more polite. That pretty much sum all about sociaty" I guess what he meant to say is that people today judge the others after their clothing, the cell they have, the car they drive, the house they own. Unfortunatly we live in a very superficial sociaty. People should be judge after what they are and what they know not after what they own.
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it is a VERY circumstantial question depending on MANY variables.\n\nbut I would choose money. I am fairly frugal and depending (of course) on the amount of money, could do a lot with the funds. \n\nLove is special, but not unique, based (in my opinion) largely on familiarity with a person. Love can be found in many places with many individuals.
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ah, the utopian question.  in a society in which money doesnt exist, presumably everyone would do what they are best at/enjoy the most, and they would help each other out when they needed.  of course, most humans (and I would venture its close to ALL humans) are greedy, and the strive for money dominates their lives.  thus, the importance of a job is to be able to provide for yourself and your family in a flawed system where the dollar is the real god.
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It doesn't say - How hard etc! It does mention that it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God - BECAUSE generally rich people covet more wealth and think of money money money - but as Scripture says \n\n1 Timothy 6:\n\n9But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.\n\n 10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.\n\n 11But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
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The richest man in the entire world, is the man at his happiest moments with his loving family around him...\n\nwhat could be more rewarding from these riches?
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Depends on "how" you mean by rich.  If you mean financially, just look at their clothes, car, accessories, home.\n\nBut there are other ways to be "rich."  I am rich in the fact that I have two beautiful wonderful happy healthy children, I have a wonderful loving family support system, my parents live next-door as does my brother and his family.   I have a wonderful extended family that is here, we all keep in touch, all across the States.  And we have pets that we consider part of our families.\n\nYou can tell, just by the smiles on their faces.  By the fact they have people around them.
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I would choose more friends....\n\nI would choose more Friends because money can't always bring you happiness, but friends can. Whenever I am having a bad day, money doesn't cheer me up, but my friends do. I'm not rich, but I have enough money to get me through life. You can never have to many friends. There is time when I don't have money, my friends cheer me up, But when I don't have friends money doesn't cheer me up.
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yes, because the thing i would want most would be financial abundance. money to pay my bills or take a vacation whenever i wanted. i wouldn't have to tell anyone, because my financial affairs are none of their business.
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How did most of my family become well-to-do?  Hard work, frugal living, savings, prudent investing, owning a very nice home in a nice community and building home equity, ... Becoming a millionaire does not necessarily mean you have one million in cold hard cash, but it does means having a net worth of a million dollars.  It's called assets.
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i know my family has a net worth of more than 1 million... i think what makes someone rich is being on the forbes riches list, which means having at least a billion dollars.
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Often, not always, welathy think their material wealth makes them inherently better people.  Often the opposite is true.  Many times wealthy demonstrate more character flaws than do middle class working individuals.  If your car ever breaks down it won't be a rich person who stops and helps--it will be a middle class or poor person.  I walked out of a shopping mall to find I had a dead battery late one night and I asked a nice BMW owner for a jump (i had cables in my trunk.)  He shook his head and said, "No."\n\nIn a poetic twist of fate that only O. Henry would appreciate, about two weeks later I drove past this guy while he was getting out of his car with a blown out tire.  It was late one evening and I was returning from a high school basketball game that had just ended.  I stopped to help him and I recognized him immediately.  He thanked me for stopping.  Once I saw him and laughed and reminded him of his refusal to help me with my dead battery.  He apologized and said he was in a hurry that day.  I smiled and said, "What do you know.  I'm in a hurry tonight.  Good luck, Pal."\n\nYes, I know I was just like him.  But perhaps for the first time in his life he understood how the shoe felt on HIS foot.  I may have helped him more by leaving him deserted on that lonely stretch of road than I could have ever helped him by changing his spare tire for him.
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There really is no Black or White answer to this question.  Even though, I am sure there are many "rich" people in the world who are nice, I've seen many more who are not so much.  In my experience, money has a tendency to change people, even when that person has the best intentions at heart.  Although I would love to have more money, I would never wish to be "rich", only comfortable enough to be able to support myself, with no loose ends.  I may be going agains the grain, here with my answer, but I think I lean more towards "poor".  Those who are poor, or live from paycheck to paycheck, tend to appreciate the small things as we all should.  "Poor" people do not care about having extravagant houses or 5 cars, one for each day of the week; they are content with a roof over their family's head, a meal for each night, and an old dependable clunker to get around in.
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For some, it is the only means they have to interpret their own self worth.  I would much rather have the true wealth of who I am inside without having to luxuriate it for the world on the outside.  Money may make a lot of things possible, but it doesn't bring forth truth nor selflessness in some...in intensifies the greed in both, men and women.
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There are two distinctly different ways:  (1) be wealthy; (2) be a perfect gentleman.  Now, a wealthy gentleman . . .!!!
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well for any body in world who loves to live good and in comfort would say TEN YEARS LIFE WITH LOTS OF MONEY but you see the question you have asked has two different meaning and can be seen in different ways by many different people \nlike if you r already rich you would always be want to be rich but if u are poor u would only think of having that money that would give atleast food for one meal and he will work harder for that.as simple life has less money its has love togetherness and lots of life  well as for a rich person money counts of which he thinks would buy him all the happiness but that does not happen eventually \n88% of rich people have problem of hypertesion as poor that does not mean anything ok a lot of lecture as i have given to u i would like to say that no human can make a correct decision on you que because man is well of desires wether \nhe is rich or poor every body would like to be rich as many people are forced to live a simple life as they also want to be rich and live lavesly for me if you ask i am happy with my middle class life earn and live, complete all ur desires and live happily even if u dont have to eat or have money to go to ur homeland to see ur parents any way take care bye .