Quotes About Treasure

It's difficult to describe adequately the depth of the rewards that one enjoys when relationships become your "official" source of meaning and fulfillment. People compare it with finding buried treasure, with the only sadness being that it didn't happen earlier in life.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

The kind of roles that Harrison Ford plays are what really interest me, like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

I think there's a bargain in every garage sale - not as much as there used to be, but they're still there.

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.

Sleep is getting to be like gold.

And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.

There is treasure buried in the field of every one of our days, even the bleakest or dullest, and it is our business, as we journey, to keep our eyes peeled for it.

People are prepared for everything except for the fact that beyond the darkness of their blindness there is a great light. They are prepared to go on breaking their backs plowing the same old field until the cows come home without seeing, until they stub their toes on it, that there is a treasure buried in that field rich enough to buy Texas.

Some are shy of going to the source For riches begin in the sea.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

Ein Buch, das man liebt, darf man nicht leihen, sondern muss es besitzen.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Valuing is creating: hear it, you creators! Valuing itself is the treasure and jewel of all valued things.

The Mouser grinned as he poked about with his gaze at the nastily slimed cobbles and the dead bodies and the scattered hardware. "Cat's Claw must be here somewhere," he muttered, "and I did hear the chink of gold.…" "You'd feel a penny under the tongue of a man you were strangling!" Fafhrd told him angrily.

Don't follow it, Fafhrd," the Mouser repeated—a little hopelessly, almost whiningly, it must be admitted. "Don't follow it, I say. It leads only to squidgy death. We can still go back up the rope, aye, and take your loot with us.

A diferencia de los hombres, los rubíes y las esmeraldas no descansan tranquilamente en su tumba.

As our Lord said, Where your treasure is, there is your heart also. Hence the least love of God is worth more than the knowledge of all created things.

I tremendously value wins.

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.