Quotes About Values

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

I could never love where I could not respect

Change everything except your loves.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

Of the five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way?

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

John Lennon said All you need is love, John obviously never met my bank manager.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Id rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

With money you can buy a house, but not a home With money you can buy a clock, but not time With money you can buy a book, but not knowledge With money you can buy blood, but not life With money you can buy sex, but not love. So what can you buy with money???

We each define our god, and from this definition, we set the criteria for self-love

We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily bodys needs and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of our households.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older

Life, love, and laughter - what priceless gifts to give our children.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it (Proverbs 15:17).

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

A man is only as good as what he loves