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Quotes About Treasure

They must have been glorious time together, those two. And it is hard to believe that the warmth, the tenderness, the beauty of it has not been gathered, and it is not treasured somewhere, somehow, by some immortal witness of mortal life.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
~ Lao Tzu
Tao is the storehouse of all things.It is the good man's treasure and the bad man's refuge.
~ Lao Tzu
When fun is forbidden, it is all the more treasured.
~ Laura Fitzgerald
How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?
~ Laura Jensen Walker
But what were you doing?' asked her father. 'Looking for the Fairbank rubies,' said Ruby merrily. 'The Count tried to kill me with jellyfish, but you know what? I found them anyway and then he tried to kill me with an octopus.
~ Lauren Child
And a feeling came over him, as if he'd found something he'd lost, something precious. His hope.
~ Lauren Tarshis
The Spice Islands were too valuable to entrust to the luck and skill of a single explorer.
~ Laurence Bergreen
On March 1, 1579, Drake caught sight of the Spanish treasure ship
~ Laurence Bergreen
He later had the pleasure of presenting those "goodly great emeralds" to Queen Elizabeth.)
~ Laurence Bergreen
If a sailor devoted years of his life to getting there and back, and if he managed to bring home a small sack stuffed with spices
~ Laurence Bergreen
predicted that it would take him at most two years to reach the Spice Islands and return to Spain with ships bulging with precious cargo.
~ Laurence Bergreen
In the ancient Sufi oral tradition, Divine Reality says: I was a Hidden Treasure and then I desired to be known, so I created a creation to which I made Myself known; then they knew Me.
~ Laurence Galian
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
~ Laurence Sterne
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
~ Laurence Sterne
True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each other, as loyally brother shieldeth brother, remaining firm in spite of war and strife, in poverty or sickness, throughout life. True friendship doth endure while comrades age from boy to youth, from warrior to sage.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
if there's one thing he remembers from stories, it's that people who offer help along your way—whether directing you to treasure or warning you of danger—should not be ignored.
~ Celeste Ng
protegía su amistad como un dragón su tesoro: en silencio y con avaricia.
~ Celeste Ng
Something that is yours forever is never precious
~ Chaim Potok
A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.
~ Chaim Potok
In the treasure map of life, X marks love.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hmmm, how to "can a day?" You know, those days that seem just perfect you want access to them whenever the need arises.
~ Jeb Dickerson, @JebDickerson
Don't miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow while looking for that pot of gold.
~ Author Unknown
The treasure of self is buried under the rainbow and yet glows beyond the sun.
~ Terri Guillemets