Quotes About Value

Please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

You don't need to do anything to be loved by the right people.

Nothing worth having comes without a price.

True Love--unconditional love--declares you worthy just because it chooses you. (pg 150)

But love says it doesn't matter. True love - unconditional love - declares you worthy just because it chooses you. And there's nothing you can do about it.

We shouldn't think for a moment that just because their lives are short they shouldn't be here.

In the universe there are only a few absolutes of value; something is valuable because it can be eaten for nourishment or used as a weapon or made into clothes or it is valuable if you want it and you believe it will make you happy. Then it is worth anything as well as nothing, worth as much as you will give to have something you think you want.

We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books, but the grew up in the Depression, aware of the quicksilver nature of money, and they learned the hard way that you shouldn't buy what you could borrow. Because of that frugality, or perhaps independent of it, they also believed that you read a book for the experience of reading it.

The irony of the Feuersprüche was that they treated books as seriously as Jews did. To feel the need to destroy them acknowledged the potency and value of books, and recognized the steadfast Jewish attachment to them.

I have come to believe that books have souls—why else would I be so reluctant to throw one away?

The softest things in the world May be harder than the hardest. Soft water can go through the strongest wall. Knowing this, I know the value of calm. Knowing this, I know the value of patience. Knowing this, I know the value of persistence. —Lao Tzu

Sometimes we get this great gift, man, and we just take it for granted. We only figure it out, how much we lost, when it's gone. —Short Sammy

Sometimes we get this great gift, man, and we just take it for granted. We only figure it out, how much we lost, when it's gone.

People feel disrespected when they show up and others don't. The message received is that those who arrive late value their own time more than that of their colleagues.

In Henry David Thoreau's Walden, written during his year in a one-room cabin with few possessions, is this quote: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life that is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Every time we cheer the downfall of a powerful woman, we're giving ourselves the message that power is bad and we shouldn't desire it. Every time we revel in a beautiful woman's aging or weight gain, we reinforce the idea that we, too, are less valuable if we are old or overweight. Every time we gloat over a woman's loss of a husband to a younger, prettier rival, we are reminding ourselves that our own relationship is unstable, that someday our man, too, will move on to greener pastures.

Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too.

It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked

And if you don't believe memories are worth more than money, then perhaps you've not made the right kind of memories.

The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.

I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery.

He hoped he had nurtured her long enough, that she perceived all that he valued: the lure of Telling and the delirium of Remembering, the addiction of Uncovering and the libation of Testimony.

Let's face it, we can't shop for intelligence, creativity, or freedom.

You have no idea how much I appreciate your friendship," Jules said. Sam held out several bills. "Yeah, actually I do," he said. "It's probably as much as I appreciate yours.