Quotes About Preciousness

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.

THE FOUR REFLECTIONS Precious Human Birth The first of the mind-changing reflections contemplates the preciousness of our human birth.

Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have.

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.

As a general rule the one who is not easily accessible is more valuable.

I speak less because my words are precious and my advices are priceless.

The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God's sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.

A simple token carries the significance of a diamond

If you can access the sense of your inherent preciousness, you can rise above shame. If you can meditate and feel equanimity, you may be able to rise above your distress.

Bir olgunun ender oluÅŸu o ÅŸeye deÄŸer katar.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.

I don't think anyone "finds" joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult

If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.

The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Say a piece of pottery is broken, and it's fixed, and they use gold in the adhesive and in the sealant. It becomes more precious than it was before it was broken in the first place.

Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.