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Quotes About Treasures

Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
she admitted that perhaps she wanted to be a writer. He smiled at the girl with infinite compassion and asked, "Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I often remember that dusty, ruined flat in old Beirut. And I know that a little part of me will stay there forever, laying out those treasures on the windowsill and playing at cat's cradle with my friend.
~ Elizabeth Laird
Knowledge and science are the coffers and caches to the treasures of Perfection; and the only access to them is to ask and question.
~ Ali al-Rida
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.
~ Allan Bloom
At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
~ Ethel Merman
Our secrets are our greatest possessions. We store them like pocket treasures, reassured by their weight, their heft, and the knowledge that though they may be smoothed by time, they bear the same stories, the same unrelenting hold, the timeless chiaroscuro they were born in. I had no knowledge of how they might alter with exposure to light.
~ Richard Wagamese
Allí están, en tus cajones, junto a los petardos que te sobraron de Navidad y las canicas de cristal: tus libros.
~ Roald Dahl
In every human being there is a child who only wants to play, and the most attractive game is mystery. The mysterious content of the human soul wanders through the meandering corridors of a mythical labyrinth, with underground congregations with candles (or illuminated by candles), secret passages in the double walls of castles, and treasures hidden in the halls!
~ Kurt Seligmann
Your only treasures are those that you carry in your heart.
~ Demophilus
It always amazed her to see the treasures low tide turned up.
~ Denise Hunter
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
~ George Eliot
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~ Thornton Wilder
Danny used to think of his heart as that strong place, but now he had a better word: the keep. His own keep, inside him, where his treasures would be hidden in case the castle was invaded.
~ Jennifer Egan
Perhaps your envy counselled her Heathcliff to rob me of my treasures? But I've most of them written on my brain and printed in my heart, and you cannot deprive me of those.
~ Emily Bronte
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
~ Emily Bronte
It;s called a flea market, because they sell old things that might have fleas living in them.
~ Emma Donoghue
Lead us, O Maruts, towards greater wealth, and out of tribulations, when you have been praised. O worshipful Maruts, accept our offering, and let us be lords of treasures!
~ Epiphanius Wilson
I'm a magpie - I collect accessories and trinkets. But I don't have expensive tastes.
~ Suranne Jones
Books are my treasures—the best that I've got." Books are like rivers that flow through my head. Books are like roads," she just might have said. "Roads that connect my old self to my new. Unlocking our hearts to what's noble and true.
~ Robert Burleigh
She can sniff it as she can sniff the pungency of the earth where it hides little treasures for the table; or the remains of the long-dead.
~ Robert Holdstock
Most libraries held treasures even the librarians did not suspect.
~ Robert Jordan
I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
~ L.M. Montgomery