Quotes About Treasure

Happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure which man possesses.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

The work equalises the emotions, and enables the two submerged to surface in series of unpredictable configurations. Work is the constant carnival; words, the rhythm and pace of two, who mine undeveloped seams of the earth and share the treasure.

Deze schat - dat wat nooit geweest is - bergt de idee van het geluk.

I said. "But there are bibliophiles the world over it would reduce to tears of joy." No exaggeration. Harley's [book] collection's worth a million-six...

Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

Wer Perlen will, der muß ins Meer sich stürzen.

Estas rosas que trajeron las manos de unas penitentes llenas de amor, nos ayudaron en nuestra victoria y a completar la sagrada labor de ganar el tesoro que es esta alma.

All you truly "own" is your SELF. Everything else is borrowed in the illusion of time and space. Treasure yourself.

Death has its own treasure map with different riches than Life.

A man has gray hair; a poet has locks as silvery as long-lost treasure.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness, without dreaming of it; but likely enough it is gone the moment we say to ourselves, "Here it is!" like the chest of gold that treasure-seekers find.

I value it as a morsel of genuine history, a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

A horse is worth more than riches.

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

Nor did ever a miser prize his treasure as did I prize the knife.

To move the rocks might yield magical treasures, or, more likely, some unimaginable woe.

No they don't. Not if you go to antique fairs and do someone a favour and find a little emerald for a special small girl,' said Dad.

Maybe, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this, in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered.

His mind was like the sea itself: troubled, and too deep for the bravest man's descent, throwing up now and again, for the naked eye to wonder at, treasure and debris long forgotten on the bottom—bones and jewels, fantastic shells, jelly that had once been flesh, pearls that had once been eyes. And he was at the mercy of this sea, hanging there with darkness all around him.

Forest restoration is a challenging and complex undertaking of raising young trees, transplanting them, and then cultivating them year in, year out in the face of harsh challenges of nature; it is a gigantic nature transformation project to turn all the mountains of the country into 'treasure mountains,' into 'gold mountains.'

Anybody who has been to Chicago has a very positive view. But not everybody has come to Chicago, and in many ways, Chicago is an undiscovered treasure. It punches below its weight internationally.

A genuine smile is one of the world's rarest treasures.