Quotes About Value

Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.

When it comes to work, it isn't so much what we do or how much we're paid; it's the satisfaction we take in doing it.

I tried to imagine myself dead, someone sorting carelessly through my belongings. What was there really of my life? Canceled checks. Reports all typewritten and filed. Everything of value reduced to terse prose. I didn't keep much myself, didn't hoard or save.

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

We been in this house forty year," he said. "Bought it back in nineteen and forty-three for four thousand dollar. Bet you never heard of a house that cheap. Now it's worth one hunnert and fifteen thousand. Just the lot we're settin' on. That don't even count the house. They can knock

August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people-- Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't... August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters.

When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, "Ain't nobody can write down in a book what you worth.

Indeed, as I made my critique, the problem seemed to me not that there are differences but rather how we value these differences.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. My

I was gonna say, The problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it. You know how hard that is, Lily? I love May, but it was still so hard to choose Caribbean Pink. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

Ain't nobody can write down in a book what you worth.

I personally keep slave documents listing the value of slaves framed on my wall in California, and in my office in Chicago.

After a while, I went down to the cellar. When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, "Ain't nobody can write down in a book what you worth.

I began to envision myself differently, to experience The Feminine not as wounded, but as something beautiful, exuberant, wise and unspeakably valuable.

The PEOPLE being regarded as the essential part of the State, and FOOD as the people's heaven, is it not right that those in authority should value and be careful of both?]

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.

Do people ever realize how precious life is? I know I never did before. There was always time. There was always a future.

This life, this everyday existence, is the one gift we're given. To throw it away, to want to be dead, to me that's the sin.

I takes a pretty special man to take the place of no man at all.

It takes a pretty special man to take the place of no man at all.

Love doesn't hurt, it feels good. Loving behavior nourishes your emotional well-being. When someone is being loving to you, you feel accepted, cared for, valued, and respected. Genuine love creates feelings of warmth, pleasure, safety, stability, and inner peace.

No human should ever be seen as something less than.

how does my worthless life get lived without me?

You know how important you are to me—' 'As important as a bottle of medicine which gets thrown away as soon as the patient recovers