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Quotes About Value

The feeling of being valuable—"I am a valuable person"—is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
~ M. Scott Peck
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
~ M. Scott Peck
If we feel ourselves valuable, then we will feel our time to be valuable, and if we feel our time to be valuable, then we will want to use it well.
~ M. Scott Peck
valuable—"I am a valuable person
~ M. Scott Peck
This feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when one considers oneself valuable one will take care of oneself in all ways that are necessary. Self-discipline is self-caring.
~ M. Scott Peck
Books are like people. They can be beautiful on the outside and it's wonderful when they are, but what counts is the inside. And the inside of a book can be communicated in a dozen different ways, and cheaply enough that everyone can have access. And everyone should.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
Time is always precious," Hirianthial said softly. "Only if you fill it with something," Sascha said. "Otherwise it's marking the hours.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
How can someone so loved look so constantly for reasons to be unworthy of it?
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.
~ M.Scott Peck
Em verdade vos digo que toda a sabedoria humana não vale um par de botas curtas.
~ Machado de Assis
As pessoas valem o que vale a afeição da gente, e é daí que mestre Povo tirou aquele adágio que quem o feio ama bonito lhe parece.
~ Machado de Assis
Marcela amou-me durante quinze meses e onze contos de réis; nada menos.
~ Machado de Assis
Ora aqui está um homem que detesta a folha e paga. Quantos a adoram e não pagam!
~ Machado de Assis
Então levado do remorso, usei ainda uma vez do meu velho meio das promessas espirituais e pedi que me perdoasse e salvasse a vida de minha mãe, e eu lhe rezaria dois mil padre-nossos. [...] Eram mais dois mil; aonde iam os antigos? Não paguei uns nem outros, mas saindo de almas cândidas e verdadeiras tais promessas são como a moeda fiduciária - ainda que o vendedor as não pague, valem a soma que dizem.
~ Machado de Assis
A vantagem de contratar com o céu é que intenção vale dinheiro.
~ Machado de Assis
Doutor em matérias escuras e complicadas, sabia muito bem o valor dos números, a significação dos gestos não só visíveis como invisíveis, a estatística da eternidade, a divisibilidade do infinito.
~ Machado de Assis
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
He knew what she wanted, and he wanted it, too; he was ready, but not, despite her gorgeousness, with Tiglah. Tiglah was not worth losing his ability to touch a unicorn.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
You don't know how lucky you are to be loved. Meg said in a startled way, I guess I never thought of that. I guess I just took it for granted.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
And another lovely paradox: we can be humble only when we know that we are God's children, of infinite value, and eternally loved.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
You matter. You are. Be.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
They're a good family...One can tell a great deal around a dinner table...I think the closest we ever come in this naughty world to realizing unity in diversity is around a family table. I felt it at their table, the wholeness of the family unit, freely able to expand to include friends, to include me even through Austin's and my suspicions of each other, and yet each person in that unit complete, individual, unique, valued.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
You know how sorry he is Nan. You must know how he'd give any of us the moon after he's been—not himself." "It's too high a price to pay for the moon
~ Maeve Binchy