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The best things in life are costly only to those who want them to be.
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Best things in life are free
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I personally believe the best thing in lives are classified as essences. So, nothing is free that isn't an essence. Not even in money. You have to take the chances to ask your friend if you can relieve the good old day's with his original Gameboy.
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I agree wholeheartedly with this post. Finding the one person whom you can share both romantic feelings and the best of companionship with induces a wonderfully indescribable feeling. In my opinion, money or any other venues of profit is meagre substance in comparison.
And of course I just have to link to this, because the topic of this thread seems rather fitting.
I see that we some changed opinions on this,
let's say that the family is the best thing in the world, but you need money to keep it together or it will be taken away from you, think about it, food money, car money house money, the count goes on.
let's say that the family is the best thing in the world, but you need money to keep it together or it will be taken away from you, think about it, food money, car money house money, the count goes on.
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You may be able to afford a car so you can drive to work in order to gain money so you can support your family. If a car is the best thing in life for you, I suppose the saying will be wrong in your prospective. If a loving family is all you want, nothing else really matters. You'll get by without money.
But without the money where will the family live, on the street?
And living on the street may be free but it's not the best thing in the world.
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There are some things that money can't buy. So unless you've got Mastercard, those are the best things in life.
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Free in a monetary sense, but don't you have to give something of yourself to another person in order to truly establish a trusting and meaningful relationship with them? I don't think any (healthy and fulfilling) relationship comes without emotional cost.
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I voted yes. Probably in accordance to a lot of what has already been said in this thread; everything does cost something (such as time), but if you're strictly economical speaking, then money isn't everything. Although, I'll be honest, money certainly counts a whole lot more than it should in this world.
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Well, in that case... I'd still say maybe, because values and priorities do differ from person to person. I'm sure your environment has some effect on how you look at money and material things. Personally, I live comfortably and enjoy my life as it is now and I view family and friends and all those cheesy things as more important than finances, but if I wasn't born into such a nice situation (or a nicer situation!) maybe I would feel a little different about the saying?
On the other hand, I know few people from any class or culture who would choose (or admit to choosing) a flat-screen TV or diamond ring or car over a beloved family member. So I don't know.
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so, you're saying that money keeps people together, cause without money everyone will be lonely?
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That's so untrue. I abuse iTune's weekly free download. And Starbucks'. :>
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If you live your life a good way, you will be happy. Finding a loved one is free, and that could make you happier than any amount of money. You know when your really happy, you have that feeling in your stomach that says, "Yay! I'm over-joyed!", you didn't pay for that did you?
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The best things in life are F - R - E - E.
EDIT: I was reading my favorite book, The Outsiders. When I saw something else, if a rich person is watching a sunset, and a poor, unfortunate person is watching that same sunset. It's hard to believe that it's the same sunset, but it is. That is free, and it is enjoyed by a wealthy person and a poor person.
EDIT # 2: To say whoever said the best things in life are free was dumb, I find that offensive. Your argument is "What about a family, will they live on the street?" Well, you honestly think shelter is worth more than love? That either says you haven't loved, or haven't thought the topic throughly yet. But, thats just myself.
-Moral of the story-
The best things in life are F - R - E - E.
EDIT: I was reading my favorite book, The Outsiders. When I saw something else, if a rich person is watching a sunset, and a poor, unfortunate person is watching that same sunset. It's hard to believe that it's the same sunset, but it is. That is free, and it is enjoyed by a wealthy person and a poor person.
EDIT # 2: To say whoever said the best things in life are free was dumb, I find that offensive. Your argument is "What about a family, will they live on the street?" Well, you honestly think shelter is worth more than love? That either says you haven't loved, or haven't thought the topic throughly yet. But, thats just myself.
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I would like to say it is true. But then again, how many poor people do you know that are happy? Not many...
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I know a lot of poor people who are happy
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You're making it sound like the most important thing in the world is money and material things.
Well only thing I can think of out of that saying is Love. It's free I guess. O.o Our Air we breath is free, if we didn't have it we wouldn't exist. XP
But I'd still prefer HD TV, High speed uncapped internet, computer games and parts, Pokemon etc to be free and/or real. XP
But I'd still prefer HD TV, High speed uncapped internet, computer games and parts, Pokemon etc to be free and/or real. XP
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If we go by the "economical" meaning of the proposition:
The best things in life are free
Then, maybe, I could agree, on a very shallow sense. Love, friendhip and, essentially, anything that comes as a concept, is "free" by principle.
But on the other hand, some things we take for granted as "free" are only apparently free, because the cost has already been paid, most of the times painfully, by someone else. Are you happy because you can walk your streets at night, no rapers, no burglars, no kidnappers? Are your happy that your car or motorcicle takes you where you want to go, and maybe more, but no less? Do you have that exact job you always wanted, and all your colleagues are good friends with you? Enjoy your boy/girl friend? Care to take a deep breath outside because the air is clean and smells like coconuts?
Most of these things you may be taking for granted, even in a monetary sense, but the truth is, someone else was charged for it, and most of the time, they have literally sweat blood to make the payment. If you have all these things described above, it's because your government has made good enough economic arrangements, selling your quarry and wood to, let's say, the United States, so that they won't need to come invade and destroy your lives to get their wealth (if you are a non-US citizen), or because the other countries have been so economically weak that your government does not need to send you in military uniform to invade, rape, steal and kill so that your family and neighbors can enjoy these current privileges (if you are an US citizen).
Note I'm putting here US as an example (a mostly accurate, practical and self-evident one), but it could be any other country. Or maybe not a country: maybe a firm who wants your land, or a firm who needs to pollute your air so that their executives can enjoy the Bahamas. The thing is, if these things are so valuable, they are priced; at the very moment they are priced, their implicit freeness disappears, it only follows as apparent because we (all) struggle to make it look that way and save face.
Now, back to things like "love", or "life", they still seem to be free, but as the world progresses their freeness is becoming tampered. We are already in a state of technology that doctors are charging people for their children to live (as in "exist in a potential future"). We are already learning that the brain can be influenced, to the deepest degree of emotion, by radiofrequency, so that soon our emotions of "love" towards a person, most likely a political leader, will have been paid for by their campaign managers.
So I would bluntly say 'yes': the most valuable things, such as freedom, friendship, all that corny stuff, are "free", because they have already been paid for. Not because they are "oh so lulz precious values that can not (by design) be brought with money".
Sorry if I sound pessimist. I am just realist. But, on the bright side, this realism allows me to vote yes.
The best things in life are free
Then, maybe, I could agree, on a very shallow sense. Love, friendhip and, essentially, anything that comes as a concept, is "free" by principle.
But on the other hand, some things we take for granted as "free" are only apparently free, because the cost has already been paid, most of the times painfully, by someone else. Are you happy because you can walk your streets at night, no rapers, no burglars, no kidnappers? Are your happy that your car or motorcicle takes you where you want to go, and maybe more, but no less? Do you have that exact job you always wanted, and all your colleagues are good friends with you? Enjoy your boy/girl friend? Care to take a deep breath outside because the air is clean and smells like coconuts?
Most of these things you may be taking for granted, even in a monetary sense, but the truth is, someone else was charged for it, and most of the time, they have literally sweat blood to make the payment. If you have all these things described above, it's because your government has made good enough economic arrangements, selling your quarry and wood to, let's say, the United States, so that they won't need to come invade and destroy your lives to get their wealth (if you are a non-US citizen), or because the other countries have been so economically weak that your government does not need to send you in military uniform to invade, rape, steal and kill so that your family and neighbors can enjoy these current privileges (if you are an US citizen).
Note I'm putting here US as an example (a mostly accurate, practical and self-evident one), but it could be any other country. Or maybe not a country: maybe a firm who wants your land, or a firm who needs to pollute your air so that their executives can enjoy the Bahamas. The thing is, if these things are so valuable, they are priced; at the very moment they are priced, their implicit freeness disappears, it only follows as apparent because we (all) struggle to make it look that way and save face.
Now, back to things like "love", or "life", they still seem to be free, but as the world progresses their freeness is becoming tampered. We are already in a state of technology that doctors are charging people for their children to live (as in "exist in a potential future"). We are already learning that the brain can be influenced, to the deepest degree of emotion, by radiofrequency, so that soon our emotions of "love" towards a person, most likely a political leader, will have been paid for by their campaign managers.
So I would bluntly say 'yes': the most valuable things, such as freedom, friendship, all that corny stuff, are "free", because they have already been paid for. Not because they are "oh so lulz precious values that can not (by design) be brought with money".
Sorry if I sound pessimist. I am just realist. But, on the bright side, this realism allows me to vote yes.
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Aye, but that's down to opinion. Who cares if you're not living in a house so long as you have a loving family?