Wealth and Happiness

Wealth increases human happiness when it lifts people out of abject poverty and into the middle class but not thereafter (Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness.
The bewildering array of choices that wealth brings not only doesn’t make us happier but actually erodyes our psychological well-being. (Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice).
Spending money on other people has a more positive impact on happiness than spending money on oneself. (Dunn et al., Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness).
Quoted from some page of Boing Boing, to remind myself that money doesn’t ascertain happiness. In many cases, it doesn’t bring true happiness. But again, can you be happy without money?