Quotes About Value

La sabiduría es como una gallina, que debemos sabe, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo

La sabiduría es como una gallina, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo.

Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to give glimpses of the treasure inside

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

you dont know what you got till its gone

Cuántas cosas cambiarían si pudiésemos disfrutar de nuestros tesoros tal como son.

cuando nos amamos, aceptamos y valoramos sin juzgar nuestras carencias, nuestra imperfección y nuestra vulnerabilidad, no perdemos tiempo en pelearnos por cambiar. Es entonces cuando el amor y la compasión crecen en nosotros y, para nuestra sorpresa, el cambio se produce

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.

I reflected that there is nothing less material than money, since any coin whatsoever (let us say a coin worth twenty centavos) is, strictly speaking, a repertory of possible futures.

If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast—I mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people—perhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven—but still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination.

La muerte (o su alusión) hace preciosos y patéticos a los hombres. Estos conmueven por su condición de fantasmas; cada acto que ejecutan puede ser último; no hay rostro que no esté por desdibujarse como el rostro de un sueño. Todo entre los mortales tiene el valor de lo irrecuperable y de lo azaroso.

non si può misurare il tempo in giorni come si misura il denaro in centesimi o in pesos, perché i pesos sono tutti uguali mentre ogni giorno è diverso e forse anche ogni ora.

No mostré a nadie mi tesoro. A la dicha de poseerlo se agregó el temor de que lo robaran

Denostó con amargura a los críticos; luego, más benigno, los equiparó a esas personas, «que no disponen de metales preciosos ni tampoco de prensas de vapor, laminadores y ácidos sulfúricos para la acuñación de tesoros, pero que pueden indicar a los otros el sitio de un tesoro».

Una vez, tu finado padre nos dijo que no se puede medir el tiempo por días, como el dinero por centavos o pesos, porque los pesos son iguales y cada día es distinto y tal vez cada hora.

Money is abstract, I said over and over, money is future time.

Properly speaking, the liberal arts receive an honorarium, while servile work receives a wage.

There is no need to waste words showing that not everything is useless which cannot be brought under the definition of the useful.

What paradise and vacation have in common is that you have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.

There's no meaning. What's the meaning of the universe? What's the meaning of a flea? It's just there. We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about.