No matter how carefully you plan your life, in the end your happiness comes down to someone who one day just walked into it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. – Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. – Helen Gurley Brown