Quotes About Treasures

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

It takes a collector to know a collector, even if you do stack your treasures in your head instead of out on a shelf.

After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

If you desire wisdom like money and buried treasures, then you'll find it!

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

Memories are a doorway to the past, and the more one treasures the memories, the wider the door will open.

Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.

But often the treasures of learning must be defended, not against the simple but, rather, against other learned men.

Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars.

Mind wandering is a gift; by it, the Lord shows us the treasures of our hearts. Our call is to bring this to the Lord, who meets us in the truth of ourselves as ones who need grace and mercy in these very places.

Once flooded with light, our boogeymen diminish, no longer ogres in our imagination. We welcome internal dialogue for its treasures.

If, as my mother used to say, a secret is a shame or a treasure, these were treasures.

Santaclaus comes down the chimney on Christmas eve, and puts nuts, cakes, sugarplums, and pieces of money into hung stockings. In the morning, children take delight in the treasures!

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man's cult of beauty.

Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.

I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings.

And memories, he knew, were not glass treasures to be kept locked within a box. They were bright ribbons to be hung in the wind.

If we examine the poems of Thérèse of Lisieux at all, they reveal themselves richer than we first thought. And this is the problem with her poetry: We have to go beyond the simple style, which is naturally and deliberately artless—as is fitting for a "Carmelite poem"—to discover the treasures it conceals.

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. Like unto trees of gold arranged in beds of silver, are wise sentences uttered in due season.

The way to accomplish oneself as Guru Rinpoche Is all rooted in the Seven-Line Prayer. The seven consciousnesses of the basis,215 While on the path, become the seven branches of enlightenment.216 The result is perfected in the seven absolute treasures.217 In this way, with the sound of this vajra melody, The moment you invoke me, I, Padmasambhava, Have no choice but to come to bless you.