Quotes About Value

And she already has her treasure: it's you.

People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.

simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.

Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.

That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Why do they make things so complicated? So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand., he said. Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value. It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

He was sure that it made no difference to her on which day he appeared: for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.

Being with someone else and making that person feel as if they were no importance in our life is far worse than feeling alone and miserable.

God uses silence to teach us to use words responsibly. He uses tiredness so that we can understand the value of waking up. He uses illness to underline the blessing of good health. God uses fire to teach us about water. He uses earth to explain the value of air. He uses death to show us the importance of life.

She is a treasure greater than anything else I have won.

He who knows the treasure he has: his days and hours of life, which can change everything which goes on around him.

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.

Just one day was worth more than all the kingdoms in the world.

This morning, my son asked me for money to buy a sheep. Should I help him, do you think?" "Since it clearly isn't a matter of urgency, wait another week before giving him your answer." "But I have the means to help him now. What difference will a week make?" "A very great difference indeed. Experience has taught me that people only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been un-certain as to whether or not they'll get it.

Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it

Because he does not know what it is to spend months and years doing nothing. Either because he does not love what he does; no one wishes to be separated from the woman he loves, no one wants to stop doing that which he loves. Or it is because there is no dignity in his going about his work - he has forgotten that work was created to help man, not humiliate him.

That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

It would harm me more to be living a life without meaning. In a war, everyone knows they're experiencing something important.

Value them; they are pearls of great price