Quotes About Values

The trade-off is a surety of purpose that eludes so many people living in today's world of constantly shifting values and expectations. "We feel like we are the only people on earth walking around with a sense of purpose. We feel we know who we are and where we are going.

El honor significa una cosa para un hombre, y otra distinta para otro.

Love, it seemed, was all about nonnegotiables.

The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.

The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it.

The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees

August says to Lily, You know some things don't matter that much Lily. Like the colour of the house. How big is that in overall scheme of life? But lifiting person's heart- now that matters. The whole problem with people is – they know what matters but they don't choose it. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters

The problem is [people] know what matters, but they don't choose it.

They don't know what matters and what doesn't I was gonna say, The problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.' I

Egy embert boldoggá tenni – tudod, ez az, ami számít. Az emberekkel az a legnagyobb baj, hogy… – … hogy nem tudják, mi számít, és mi nem! – Én úgy mondanám, a baj az, hogy tudják, mi számít, és mégsem azt választják.

Was it ever right to sacrifice one's truth for expedience?

There was no divorce in the DPRK, but in America the rate was more than 50 percent, and divorce let to crime and mental illness, according to him. So what happens when people are unhappy here after being married for a while? I asked. The student looked at me blankly. Still another student wanted to write about how McDonald's was horrible. The same student then asked me, So what kind of food does McDonald's make?

I wondered if it was possible that they had never been taught that lying was a bad thing.

If their children misbehave, they'll take away privileges, but they won't assault their dignity or value.

I respect the values that imbued my personal trajectory, I must avoid the degradations and dependencies of pointless suffering. "Death has dominion," Ronald Dworkin explains, "because it is not only the start of nothing but the end of everything, and how we think and talk about dying—the emphasis we put on dying with 'dignity'—shows how important it is that life ends appropriately, that death keeps faith with the way we want to have lived.

Morality's like mink," I said. "It's great if you can afford it.

one should stick to one's principles and never compromise them just to do the done thing!

In fact the great truth of life is that the things most people think are important aren't really important at all.

In our time, we couldn't find a virgin—of either sex—over the age of sixteen.

Being a good man has nothing to do with how many touchdowns you score. But maybe, rather, how you play the game.

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

When consuming goods rather than satisfying work becomes the focus of our culture, we have created (or acquieced in) a society of permanent adolescents.

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.