Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happiness.

Matshona Dhliwayo
About This Quote

This excerpt of a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sums up the concept of material possessions and their limits. A person is who they are and can only be as happy as they make themselves. Even though we all seem to want more and more of everything, we cannot buy happiness.

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