Quotes About Value

then is that not life in its simplest form? That so little matters so much, and so much matters so little.

He's resigned himself to the belief that the best a person can do is to make one's life worth dying for.

There will be boys who tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you" -Babcia

There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you.

But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.

Doing a lot does not mean you're doing anything important with your 168 hours.

I would argue that, over the last 40 years, as a higher proportion of parents' time in two-parent families has been compensated at market rates, parental time overall has become more valuable. Consequently, parents allocate this valuable time differently during their nonworking hours than people did in the past.

The majority of people who claim to be overworked work less than they think they do, and many of the ways people work are extraordinarily inefficient. Calling something "work" does not make it important or necessary.

Everything has an opportunity cost. Money is completely fungible, and so every penny spent on one thing could be spent on something else. The question all of us need to ask ourselves is whether that something else might actually make us or our loved ones happier.

Calling something "work" doesn't make it a more noble use of time than anything else. Work that doesn't advance you toward the life you want is still wasted time.

It is not a terrible thing to love the world, knowing that the world is always passing and irrecoverable, to be known only in loss. To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain." Holding

This requires incredible mindfulness. It requires deciding, in a busy life, to give people the attention they deserve. That is a splendid choice; in general, people are an excellent use of time.

Is there a moment when you'll never be able to remember something again?" "No," said his wife. "Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping." She gave his temple a playful push, and he let his head fall to one side. "It's all in there.

No roll in the hay is worth losing what I've got.

In a world where everything could be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, it was too incredible to think that this could not.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

He almost died," I pointed out. "Not that I have any other experience of it, but I would guess that when people almost die, their worth automatically goes up, at least to some small degree.

Don't wait too long to be rescued, old lady – you might pass your sell-by date.

In any case, in general, I prefer to avoid conflict when I can. Not because I'm afraid or because I'm too weak to fight back. But because conflict eats up your time. It is exhaustive in terms of energy you have to expend to be involved in it. More if you mean to win, and I'd never do it if I didn't mean to win. I'd rather spend my time on other things and in general, most people aren't worth that much of my time and energy.

When people lie to me they're telling me I'm not worth the truth.

It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

Yet his salary was considerably more than Magellan's, the highest of any in the fleet:

The food represented a considerable investment: 1,252,909 maravedís, nearly as much as the cost of the entire fleet

What are you protecting yourself from? Will you sell your life for fear's price?