Quotes About Value

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.

You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?

If we're others-centered, we'll be blessed, but if we're clothed in selfishness, we'll be of limited value to others.

The first and absolute condition of the thing's ever becoming saleable is, that we shall make it without wanting to sell it; nay, rather with a determination not to sell it at any price, if once we get hold of it. Try to make your Art popular, cheap –

It is not of the slightest use to economise ; every farthing improperly saved does a shilling's worth of damage ; and that is getting a bargain the wrong way.

What one person has, another cannot have; and that every atom of substance, of whatever kind, used or consumed, is so much human life spent, which, if it issue in the saving present life, or gaining more, is well spent, but if not, is either so much life prevented or so much slain.

Because it's gorgeous," she said. A gold watch dangled from her fingers. "It's a Patek Philippe, from 1918. I've looked it up—it could be worth anything up to a quarter million.

This is the last time I would ever visit the cemetery or my wife's grave, but I didn't want to expend too much effort in trying to remember it. As I said, this is the place where she's never been anything but dead. There's not much value in remembering that.

But we get to live as long as we're useful. And that is a rare privilege.

Humans, being intermediary creatures in both time and space, did not fully appreciate the value of life at every physical and temporal scale.

I don't discount that in the end, everything I do, say, write and am will amount to a whole lot of not much; I just don't think it's a relevant metric. The relevant metric is: Have I constructed a life that gives me happiness, allows me to give happiness, and allows for this life to have meaning within its admittedly limited context? If I am succeeding in this particular metric, I think I'm doing pretty well.

People will eat cheeseburgers, but very few people will eat crap. Don't serve up crap.

You were merely part of the package deal. It was acceptable because you seemed unlikely to fuck things up." "Nice to be valued

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I'm not trying to save the world, much of it is not worth saving.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

Regarding thou mayest: And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.