Quotes About Value

Since life is essentially a mental state and everything that we do or think is only as valuable as we think it is, it depends on us for any value it may have.

Everything is worth it, when your soul is not small

Men of action are the unwitting slaves of men of the intellect. Things only acquire value once they are interpreted. Some men, then, create things in order that others, by giving them meaning, make them live.

El tedio no es la enfermedad del aburrimiento por no tener nada que hacer, sino la enfermedad más grave de sentir que no vale la pena hacer nada.

don't insult myself by giving to dreams a value they do not have, apart from that of being my personal theatre, just as I do not call wine (from which I still do not abstain) 'food' or 'one of life's necessities'.

I dream because I dream, but I don't insult myself by giving to dreams a value they do not have, apart from that of being my personal theatre, just as I do not call wine (from which I still do not abstain) 'food' or 'one of life's necessities'.

No el amor, sino los alrededores es lo que vale la pena... La represión del amor ilumina sus fenómenos con mucha más claridad que la misma experiencia.

109 [126] Even my dreams turn on me. I achieve such a degree of lucidity in them that I perceived as real everything I dreamed. So, because I dreamed it, was everything I valued just a waste of time?

What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone; if the former it has no novelty value and if the latter it will be incomprehensible.

El afán por comprender, para tantas almas nobles sustituye al de actuar, pertenece a la esfera de la sensibilidad. Sustituir la energía por la inteligencia, romper el eslabón entre la voluntad y la emoción, despojando de intereses todos los gestos de la vida material, es es lo que, una vez logrado, vale más que la vida, tan difícil de poseer por entero y triste de poseer parcialmente.

que pesa duramente na alma: é a estupidez que sacrifica vidas e haveres a qualquer coisa inevitavelmente inútil.

Happiness is the certainty that our life is not going in vain.

El amor no es una condecoración, capitán. No siempre se concede al mérito o a la virtud.

The life you save may very well be your own.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

I don't have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel a few pages, then if I can stop reading without a sense of loss, I do, and I go on to something else.

Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted to get ahead, you had to work. He said this was the law of life and it was no way to get around it because it was inscribed on the human heart like love thy neighbour. He said these two laws were the team that worked together to make the world go round and that any individual who wanted to be a success and win the pursuit of happiness, that was all he needed to know.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Someone else's paper is fascinating until you buy it yourself. Then it loses its appeal, and you have to pass it on to someone else to reinvigorate it.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

Personal brand equity erodes much faster than corporate brand equity.

When you think of the people who were important in your life, prettiness was not a factor. They might have been old, fat and toothless - but they were there.

I don't want features, I want value. I don't want benefits, I want value.

I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!