Quotes About Values

If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean that the thing we're talking about when we use the word "identity" has reached an end.

Unlike many of their consumer-minded neighbors, the Amish do not assemble their spirituality piecemeal by personal preference.

the truth is that most people buy a home because it uniquely reflects their personality and their values.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

Work on your character and a good life will come to you.

We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.

I guess what I am saying is, I believe God wants us to create beautiful stories, and whatever it is that isn't God wants us to create meaningless stories, teaching the people around us that life just isn't worth living.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

El territorio común, ya sea en términos de gustos musicales o valores compartidos, es una poderosa herramienta de marketing.

The larger point here is simple: the day we stop losing sleep over the success of our business and start losing sleep over the success of our customers is the day our business will start growing again.

Her relationships were more about shared memories and common values than about strategic partnerships to help each other succeed.

I've learned there are givers and takers in this life. I've slowly let the takers go and I've had it for the better. God bless them, when they learn to play by the rules they are welcomed back, but my heart is worth protecting.

living your words, walking your talk, and talking your walk.

your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.

In addition to an education, kids were supposed to graduate with some basic values, self-discipline, and life skills. A little common sense wouldn't hurt either. Our schools don't teach that anymore. instead we're more concerned about kids having self-esteem and feeling good about themselves than we are about preparing them for real life. The politically correct crowd has taken over our schools, and as a result we are failing our children.

O tempora, o mores

Helmut thought himself above common morality. Or perhaps he thought he'd managed to create his own, different from ours, better.

She reminds me a bit of those women in nineteenth-century novels, interested in the moral improvement of their inferiors,' she said.

It seems to me it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference," he said. "Between what?" "The criminal and the wrong." "Why do you think that is, Guido?" "I'm not sure. Perhaps because, as you said before, we don't believe in the old things anymore, and we haven't found anything new, anything else, to believe in.

love trumped principle. Paola tossed out these things

These were good people, common people; the salt of the earth people; people whom i should count myself fortunate to know

Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones?»

downshifting classic Your Money or Your Life,

Almost everyone has a psychological gap between the way they believe they should act in daily life and how they actually behave. The more materialistic a person is, the wider that gap is likely to be. Knowingly or unknowingly, materialists often feel conflicted over their failure to be better people-they experience a sense of incongruence between their ideal self and their real self. Simplifiers tend to have narrower gaps and greater congruence.