Quotes About Value

She appreciated life, it seemed, appreciated being alive, as if it were some extra gift she hadn't ever expected to receive, as if, perhaps, she wasn't quite worthy of the magnitude of it; and because she appreciated life, he began to do so, too.

She runs her hands over her hipbones and her ribs, stark even under her nightgown, and she thinks about how crazy she was not to appreciate it. How stupid she was all her life not to eat the French Fries and vanilla Cokes. As if her slimness and beauty were the most valuable things she could ever own.

You don't have to earn love. It either is or isn't.

The needs and companionship of a bird provide a reason to get up in the morning. The value of this cannot be overestimated for older bird owners and single people who are on their own. Birds provide all the benefits of the humananimal bond, including lower blood pressure and reduced levels of stress.

Remember, you are going to run out in front of the people who pay your wages. Their expectancy of you is high, their value of you is high and their opinion of you is high. So do not let them down. Entertain them and you can only do that by being honest with yourself, respecting your team-mates and your opponents, and by, as a team, playing as one.

That teaching according to which intellectual activity is worthy of esteem to the extent that it is practical and to that extent alone.

this fetishism of the world of commodities arises from the peculiar social character of the labor which produces them.

What confirms them in this view is the peculiar circumstance that the use-value of a thing is realized without exchange, i.e., in the direct relation between the thing and man, while, inversely, its value is realized only in exchange, i.e., in a social process. Who

Being alive always seems to be the price of something.

Piensa en ésto, cuando te regalan un reloj te regalan algo que es tuyo pero que no es tu cuerpo, que hay que atar a tu cuerpo con su correa como un bracito desesperado colgándose de tu muñeca. Te regalan la necesidad de darle cuerda todos los días, te regalan el miedo de perderlo, de que te lo roben, de que se te caiga al suelo y se rompa. Te regalan la tendencia a comparar un reloj con los demás relojes... no te regalan un reloj, tú eres el regalado.

estoy vivo —dijo Traveler mirándolo en los ojos—. Estar vivo parece siempre el precio de algo. Y vos no querés pagar nada. Nunca lo quisiste

Regalos insignificantes como un beso en un momento inesperado o un papel escrito a las apuradas. Pueden ser valorados más que una joya.

We cannot ask ourselves whether 'woman' is superior or inferior to 'man' any more than we can ask ourselves whether water is superior or inferior to fire. There can be no doubt that a woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.

and because I was still influenced at the time by Idealist and Nietzschcan views, which I combined with a Tantric perspective. I was even to criticise Guenon's book on Vedanta in writing (in the magazine Realistic Idealism [Idealismo realistico]). Guenon addressed my criticism, but, evidently, the two of us were speaking a different language. Only gradually did I come to appreciate the value of Guenon's work, which allowed me to more ad¬ equately put my own ideas into focus.

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

I'm just trying to matter.

I'm just tryin to matter.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

I wanted to boast to everyone,"This woman is mine. Take a look at my treasure.

Come on! What's so precious about a monster?

There is no receipt for time.

I will give you childhood, so that you might know innocence. Age, so you will know the prize of youth. Children, so that you will care for the future. Toil, so that you will know the value of a day. The body's failings, so that you will know its worth. Death, so that you will cherish the bittersweet beauty of life.

Sometimes this place is like a big rudeness contest, but it's worth the hassle.