Quotes About Value

There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things.

From a distance she might be mistaken for a very young woman, while the maid seemed to have aged doubly, perhaps for them both, as if her occupation had been to age, to exchange the magic of months for bank notes and food.

There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things, which it did for Saeed and Nadia, and so even though they spoke less and did less together, they saw each other more, although not more often.

that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.

end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things

Then what were feelings worth? Like currency, their value depended on a sound treasury, so love from a liar was pretty worthless.

Má, please do not cry. I know I could have bought bread with it, a room for the night. I could have bought acts of love with it, but I could have never bought back the years of your life. Sorrow, even when tempered by sweat and toil into a whisper weight of gold, is still sorrow. Worthless to us both in the end, Má. Better that a stranger circles the globe with it than your youngest son.

Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading. A better formula is this: Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.

To use a good book as a sedative is conspicuous waste.

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever.

O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.

I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

A person is as strong as he thinks he is, and as valuable as he thinks he is.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

Don't ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.

I'd guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved. But don't get a swelled head over it. A cabbage has a purpose when someone needs to make soup.

There's only a yard of stuff in it, worth a pound if that, I went on, horrified by the waste of money. And how many yards of canvas in a Fragonard? And how much do planks of wood cost, or the skin of a darling goat before some clever person turns them into commodes and morocco? Art is more than yards, just as one is more than flesh and bones.

Why miss out on what God has in store for you while you're trying to get in on his plan for somebody else? Your plans are the best—for YOU—and so is your personality. You're so worth it

the stories that produced [Trump] were always contested. There were always other stories, ones that insisted that money is not what's valuable, and that all of our fates are intertwined with one another and with the health of the natural world… while Trump is the logical culmination of the current neoliberal system, the current neoliberal system is not the only logical culmination of the human story

environmental movement sought to distance themselves from Leopold's "radical" suggestion that nature had an inherent value beyond its utility to man. If watersheds and old-growth forests had a "right to continued existence," as Leopold argued (a preview of the "rights of nature" debates that would emerge several decades later), then an owner's right to do what he wished with his land could be called into question.

we have an economic system that fetishizes GDP growth above all else, regardless of the human or ecological consequences, while failing to place value on those things that most of us cherish above all—a decent standard of living, a measure of future security, and our relationships with one another.

Indeed, the climate crisis, by presenting our species with an existential threat and putting us on a firm and unyielding science-based deadline, might just be the catalyst we need to knit together a great many powerful movements bound together by a belief in the inherent worth and value of all people and united by a rejection of the sacrifice zone mentality, whether it applies to peoples or to places.