Quotes About Value

New technology, on Earth, just means something you will laugh at in five years. Value the stuff you won't laugh at in five years. Like love. Or a good poem. Or a song. Or the sky.

Do not watch TV aimlessly. Do not go on social media aimlessly. Always be aware of what you are doing, and why you are doing it. Don't value TV less. Value it more. Then you will watch it less. Unchecked distractions will lead you to distraction.

When things are taken from us, the stuff that remains has more value.

Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.

Imagine yourself as a baby. You would look at that baby and think they lacked nothing. That baby came complete. Their value was innate from their first breath. Their value did not depend on external things like wealth or appearance or politics or popularity. It was the infinite value of a human life.

You were born worthy of love and you remain worthy of love.

Life is the people who love you. No one will ever choose to stay alive for an iPhone. It's the people we reach via the iPhone that mater.

You don't need to exhaust yourself trying to find your own value. You are not an iPhone needing an upgrade. Your value is not a condition of productivity or exercise or body shape or something you lose via inactivity. Value is not a plate that needs to be continually spun. The value is there. It is intrinsic, innate. It is in the "being" not the "doing.

When really success isn't something you measure, and life isn't a race you can win. It's all . . . bollocks, actually . . .

Don't think your work matters more than it does.

Feeling. That is what it is about. People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential.

Never understimate the big importance of small things.

No single feeling becomes the only feeling if you let it all happen. And the way to let it all happen is to see the value in it all, in everything. To see the way the dark might lead to the light and the way present pain might lead to future hope.

Don't worry about the time you lose to despair. The time you will have afterwards has just doubled its value.

While knowledge without integrity is dangerous, integrity without knowledge is weak and useless.

No infravalores nunca la gran importancia de las pequeñas cosas". -La Biblioteca de la Medianoche-

When things are taken from us, the stuff that remains has more value. It rises not only in visibility but also intensity. What we lose in breadth we gain in depth.

Time is not like pocket money that you can spend, because time is the person spending the pocket money and the pocket money is you

Ein Mensch war wie eine Stadt. Ein paar weniger wünschenswerte Aspekte durften nicht den Blick aufs Ganze verstellen. Vielleicht gab es einiges, was man nicht mochte, ein paar zwielichtige Straßen und Vororte, aber wegen der guten Seiten lohne es sich doch. - S. 61

I am a waste of a carbon footprint, to be honest.

Onderschat nooit het belang van kleine dingen.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things, Mrs Elm had said.

Your worth is you. Your worth is your presence. Your worth is right there. Your worth isn't something you earn. Your worth isn't something you buy. Your worth isn't something you gain through status or popularity or stomach crunches or having a really chic kitchen. Your worth is your existence. You were born with worth, as all babies are, and that worth doesn't disappear simply because you have grown a little older. You are a human, being.

For instance, I find that being grimly aware of mortality can make me steadfastly determined to enjoy life where life can be enjoyed. It makes me value precious moments with my children, and with the woman I love. It adds intensity in bad ways, but also good ways.