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Quotes About Value

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of cure.
~ Rudyard Kipling
If you want something and don' get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price
~ Rudyard Kipling
Do you dare imply that this useless sword is worthy of me?- Sesshomaru
~ Rumiko Takahashi
The answer goes back to why God created us.He created us to be His loved ones,His family with whom He can share a relationship of mutual enjoyment. This shows the kind of God He is-a personal God who values loving relationships more than anything else in all the universe.
~ Ruth Myers
A secret of growth is to never lose sight of the quiet place within you, the silent harbor of the Lord's presence. Enjoy your memories from days of old, but prize nothing more than the Lord and the value He places on each day.
~ Ruth Myers
Today is a precious possession. It's a generous deposit in our life-bank, one that's here for twenty-four hours only.
~ Ruth Myers
And what does it mean to waste time anyway? If you waste time is it lost forever?
~ Ruth Ozeki
There's nothing like realizing that you don't have much time left to stimulate your appreciation for the moments of your life.
~ Ruth Ozeki
And what does it mean to waste time anyway? If you waste time is it lost forever? And if time is lost forever, what does that mean? It's not like you get to die any sooner, right?
~ Ruth Ozeki
Captured by the cooking, I had a fleeting thought that I'd spent too many years trading time for money.
~ Ruth Reichl
Idle and superfluous all day long, all at once they had become visible, needed, and
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
After all, what is a dollar but paper? A bullet can save your life. Bullets make weapons more significant, and that makes you more significant. A man's life - what is that worth? Another man exists only to the degree that he stands in your way. Life doesn't mean much, but it's better to take it from the enemy before he has time to deliver a blow.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Lo sradicamento dalla propria cultura costa caro. Per questo è così importante avere chiaro il senso della propria identità, della sua forza e del suo valore. Solo allora l'uomo può liberamente confrontarsi con una cultura diversa. In caso contrario si chiuderà nella sua tana, isolandosi timorosamente dagli altri.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The slaves of paltriness, the frogs in life's swamp, will naturally cry out, "Such a love is foolishness. The rich brewer's widow is a match fully as good and respectable." Let them croak.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Lord, give us weak eyes for things of little worth, and eyes clear-sighted in all of your truth.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
All this is only fooling, for if it is true that every man must work for his own salvation, then all the prophecies about the future of the world are only valuable and allowable as a recreation, or a joke, like playing bowls or cards.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It is comic that a mentally disordered man picks up any piece of granite and carries it around because he thinks it is money, and in the same way it is comic that Don Juan has 1,003 mistresses, for the number simply indicates that they have no value. Therefore, one should stay within one's means in the use of the word love.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul. 24
~ Soren Kierkegaard
La resignación infinita es el último estadio que precede a la fe, de modo que quien no haya realizado ese movimiento no alcanzará la fe. Sólo en la resignación infinita me descubro en mi valor eterno: sólo entonces, en virtud de la fe, podré tratar de hacerme con la existencia de este mundo.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Ei ajattelu ole yhtään sen arvokkaampaa kuin mielikuvitus tai tunne, vaan niihin rinnastettavaa. Ajattelun ylivalta johtaa harhaan.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
~ Sally Malcolm
But the past is not less valuable because it is no longer the present. In fact, it's more important, because forever unseen.
~ Salman Rushdie
Bir ÅŸey tabi hiçbir ÅŸey den çok, çok daha iyidir, yar? memnun geçirdiÄŸimiz ömrün sonunda kar??m?za ç?ksa bile.
~ Salman Rushdie