Quotes About Values

love typically gives rise to responsiveness regarding the beauty of a very specific individual taken as a whole rather than for values taken individually.

We want to care most about what Jesus cares most about.

Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.

Ako dobra nema u ljudima, ne može ga biti ni u društvu.

U prošlost se uvek vra?amo kad nam je stvarnost neprihvatljiva, a budu?nost neizvesna. Kad nam sadasnjica uhrozi ili poruši vrednosti u koje smo verovati I koje su nam ?inile smisao, mi u istoriji trazimo uto?ište I razloge za nadu.

Smatram da je Bog prvo veliko pitanje mladosti. Na njega se mora bez tu?e pomo?i odgovarati sebi. ?ovek najpre treba da se odredi prema Bogu, pa potom prema svetu.

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

She cared so much about her words, her creative expression, when what mattered to everyone else was the bottom line.

What you do isn't who you are.

We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others change their principles for the sake of their party.

A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.

33 El pobre es honrado por sus buenas costumbres y santo temor de Dios; y el rico es respetado por las riquezas que tiene. 34 Mas aquel que en medio de la pobreza es honrado, ¿cuánto más lo sería si llegase a ser rico? Pero el que funda su honor en sus riquezas, tiene que temer mucho la pobreza. 11

Excellence cannot happen in the kind of environment that values time constraints above all else, and you certainly cannot harmonize anything within the Gong Dao Bei until arriving at that keen level of spiritual and emotional maturity where a deep appreciation of the ultimate opportunity is felt and understood.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Attaining the goal of a full, happy life, ripe with experiences well-used, means that each of us will become a paradox—free, yet constrained by necessity; shrewd, yet innocent; open to others, yet self-reliant; strong, yet able to yield; centered on the highest values, yet able to accept imperfection; realistic about the suffering existence imposes on us, yet full of gratitude for life as it is.

Crockery has been withdrawn from American culture below a certain level.

You shop in malls instead of mercados, you watch football instead of fútbol, you become another consumer in a giant machine that consumes consumers.

It only makes sense, he thinks, that people whose only loyalty is to money would find each other. Shit seeks its own level.

Rich or dead. There's worse choices.

he wanted to be best man. "That's old-school shit," Malone said. "That was our parents, our grandparents, it don't necessarily work that way anymore.

Truth, justice and the American way. The American way is: truth and justice maybe say hello in the hallway, send each other a Christmas card, but that's about the extent of their relationship.