Quotes About Value

It might be impossible to make sense of life: life was not worth living until the attempt to do so had been made." CHARLES E. RAVEN

valuable. We have to take care of them.

The person who completes your life is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather the person who made your life worth living, no matter how long or short a time you were given to spend with them.

It should always make us happy to say that loving someone and being loved by someone is worth whatever price paid.

Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking. Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead.

As long as art is understood and valued as an "absolute" activity, it will be a separate, elitist one. Elites presuppose masses. So far as the best art defines itself by essentially "priestly" aims, it presupposes and confirms the existence of a relatively passive, never fully initiated, voyeuristic laity which is regularly convoked to watch, listen, read, or hear — and then sent away.

Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking.

No book is worth reading once if it is not worth reading many times.

Fotografiar es conferir importancia. Quizás no haya tema que no pueda ser embellecido; es más, no hay modo de suprimir la tendencia intrínseca de toda fotografía a dar valor a sus temas.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art-and in criticism today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

As the old advertising slogan of Paris Match, founded in 1949, had it: "The weight of words, the shock of photos." The hunt for more dramatic (as they're often described) images drives the photographic enterprise, and is part of the normality of a culture in which shock has become a leading stimulus of consumption and source of value.

It's better to have a hunger and appreciation for beauty than to be merely beautiful. In the end, life is richer that way. She may learn that.

Thank the Lord you have a man as hardworking as Stijn. Work is love made plain, whether man's or woman's work, and you're a fool if you don't recognize it.

I came to see that knowing what love isn't might be just as valuable, though infinitely less satisfying, as knowing what it is.

Sometimes the true value of the piece is how much a person loves it.

There is more real wealth in a pound of honey, or a load of manure for that matter, than all the currency in the world. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance." —William Longgood, The Queen Must Die

We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." —Mark Twain

Write your passion and somebody will pay you for it.

money is a matter of faith—as thirty-six inches are a yard only because multitudes agree to that measure of length and keep that agreement." If the agreement was broken, "faith was gone, and any tangible thing to eat, to wear, to shelter one's body from the weather was more valuable than any number of pieces of paper, which were only symbols of a lost faith.

I can see it is in the nature of men to prefer one thing to another, to find one thing more meaningful than another.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!

Next Christmas he was going to open this shabby sack of hers... and put something in the money compartment. She would fritter it away, of course, in small unimportances; so that in the end she would not know what she had done with it; but perhaps a series of small satisfactions scattered like sequins over the texture of everyday life was of greater worth than the academic satisfaction of owning a collection of fine objects at the back of a drawer.