Quotes About Value

What is it, then, that comprises our deepest selves and gives us worth?

He who holds his life dear is destroying it; And he who makes his life of no account in this world Will keep it to the life of the ages." Yeshua

he loved me for who I was, not for who I could be

What's the value of a diamond? Whatever someone is willing to pay for a pretty stone that makes him feel important.

The value of an idea is determined by how appealing the idea is to someone. If you want something desperately, you will pay desperately.

Humans, both personally and collectively, slaved away to possess various treasures and then spent their lives protecting them in the belief that what they had worked so hard to possess would make them whole.

All people want to feel their efforts matter, and individuals with ASD are no different.

By cultivating the autistic mind on a brain-by-brain, strength-by-strength basis, we can reconceive autistic teens and adults in jobs and internships not as charity cases but as valuable, even essential, contributors to society.

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

Our desire to preserve is a form of denial about our own mortality. The fact that art can indure longer than people has lead some to seek a form of proxy-immortality through it. If we accept that art is mortal too, and that nothing is truly permanent, maybe we can see more clearly where the value of art and life is to be fount - in experiencing them.

the meaning of life is not some kind of answer, which, once learned, is forever possessed. For life to stay meaningful it must continue to contain things of value, and that is an ongoing work in progress. Meaning can vanish: what we once found gave us a reason to exist we can lose or tire of.

The technical qualities of a product matter, but the way the product is experienced is more important.

Julian Hawthorne

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

Our stories are what we have," Our Good Mother says. "Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

It's important to cherish every day, not take anything for granted.

How long, I wondered, did we need to cling to the things that belonged to our lost loved ones? Were "things" what really mattered? It was just stuff.

How long, I wondered, did we need to cling to the things that belonged to our lost loved ones? Were "things" what really mattered? It was just stuff. The value, I supposed, was that it helped me to remember details. But there was nothing concrete about a memory. Memories—and love—exist in our hearts and minds and souls. That love travels with us wherever we go.

I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?

I suppose partially because of the success of the early movies and things like that, I began to realize, that children do look up to you in some way, and there is a responsibility for how you behave with them. I know that it's important to make them feel very valuable, not to talk down to them.

God loves you. Life is the most precious gift from God. You will break God's heart if you throw His gift away.

The French don't value education. They exalt it.

It has been said ... that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not -- it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

Some people should be paid not to write another novel.