The more you get the more it takes

[LadyLaw]

Steve, here are some past "pearls" on this topic:

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
--Benjamin Franklin

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
--Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
--Tom Bodett

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
--H. L. Mencken

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash There is no goal better than this one: to know as you lie on your deathbed that you lived your true life, and you did whatever made you happy.
--Steve Chandler 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself

And finally........................................... ...................

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that has the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
--Dale Carnegie