Quotes About Treasure

Unde e mintea, acolo-i si comoara.

My body is but a vessel for my most potent treasure … my mind.

Sull'acqua, sotto il mare, in alto nel bosco sarai. Fidati del tuo istinto, nel mare; riporta a me il tuo tesoro. Se lo troverai, come dovresti, viaggerai, giorno e notte. Appena lo vedrai, lo saprai, come sopra così sotto. Quando lo avrai afferrato, sarai pronto ad attraversare il mare.

He guards his privacy as zealously as a dragon guards his gold.

secrets were more like mines waiting to be triggered than treasure waiting to be found. I glanced

A daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness.

"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure." (6:14)

A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.

Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

world never had such wealth been assembled in one place at one

I was struck with the consuming terror that the miser must feel for his hoard. It was so vulnerable.

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

He sat on the bed for a long time, savoring the new thing, the treasure. Rage.

And somewhere, in a black California morning, some hour before dawn, amid the corridors, the galleries, the faces of dream, fragments of conversation she half-recalled, waking to pale fog against the windows of the master bedroom, she prized something free and dragged it back through the wall of sleep. Rolling over, fumbling through a bedside drawer, finding a Porsche pen, a present from an assistant grip, she inscribed her treasure on the glossy back of an Italian fashion magazine:

The box was nearly finished now, she thought, although it moved so quickly, in the padded claws, that it was difficult to see... Abruptly, it floated free, tumbling end over end, and she sprang for it instinctively, caught it, and went tumbling past the flashing arms, her treasure in her arms.

A book holds a house of gold.

Deep inside every customer is a treasure trove of half-baked ideas, creative capacity, and ingenuity-in-the-raw.

Perhaps only when one possessed a greater treasure could one let go of this world.

Krishna hinted that such a treasure was inside me—Weapons cannot harm it; fire cannot burn it; it is eternal, still and blissful—but the words, slippery as stones that have been left underwater a long time, slid from my fingers even as I tried to examine them. Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.

Diamonds can be found anywhere.

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

If so, did the law of "finders keepers, losers weepers" apply? Because if Billy could find the gold or jewels or winning Mega Millions Lotto cards—whatever treasure Dr. Libris had hidden on his island—he could buy himself a new iPhone. He could also pay for some of his father's silly toys and maybe get his mom a bunch of those blueberry pies she said she liked so much.