Quotes About Values

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

You can either buy clothes or buy pictures, she said. It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures.

That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Férfit meg szabad ölni. Megátalkodni is szabad. De megsérteni nem.

A man must learn to recognize values.

Non c'è nulla di nobile nell'essere superiore a qualcun altro. La vera nobiltà consiste nell'essere superiore a chi eravamo ieri.

you have to discard the old moralities, values and belief structures, you have to look for what is authentic in yourself.

porque yo guardaba la boca callada cuando algo no me gustaba. Si a una persona le gustaban las pinturas o los escritos de sus amigos, yo lo miraba como algo parecido a lo de la gente que quiere a su familia, y es descortés criticársela. A veces, uno puede pasar mucho tiempo antes de tomar una actitud crítica ante su propia familia, la de sangre o la política.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

Popular! ' Dad roared. 'Popular! that's the magic word isn't it. That's what's the matter with this generation. nobody thinks about being smart, or clever, or sweet, or even attractive. No sir. They want to be skinny and flat chested and popular. They'd sell their soul and body to be popular, and if you ask me lot of them do.

The course of the world constantly and inevitably frustrates our moral demands.

Jesus would rather have us do what is right than what is "Christian." Earlier

The Ten Commandments are the lowest possible standard of humane living.

The way we store energy is through our desires, values, passions, hopes, dreams, and aspirations, and ultimately our greatest capacity for energy storage is through what we love.

Si se vive de acuerdo con la conciencia, la fe no es tan importante.»

Un sabio, sí, era un sabio quien por primera vez alzó en su mente y con su lengua expresó que la boda con un igual es lo mejor, con mucho, y que ni con quienes por su riqueza viven en la molicie ni con quienes por su linaje están ensoberbecidos, cuando uno es un jornalero, ha de ambicionar casarse...

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning.

He invites us to recognize that our values evolve as we mature and "move from an understanding of ethical and moral issues in black and white absolutist terms to comprehending the gray ambiguity of most matters."6

A Window into the Human Heart Affairs have a lot to teach us about relationships. They open the door to a deeper examination of values, human nature, and the power of eros.

Grandma Ponder said, Show me a man wears a diamond ring, and I'll show you a wife beater.

All men die in solitude; all values are degraded in a state of misery: that is what Shakespeare tells me

Pofta de a ucide b?trani.B?tranii sunt scîrboÈ™i.Tinerii sunt mediocrii È™i nerozi.Tinerii mi-au fost întodeauna nesuferiÈ›i,mai ales cand eram tan?r.Curtea pe care maeÈ™trii de gandire,umbl? dup? clientel?,o fac tineretului,e unul din lucrurile cele mai înjositoare din cate cunosc.Cat? lips? de demnitate,ce laÈ™itate,ce nonsens!