#precious

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not. ↗

— John McGahern

#around #becomes #danger #forever #going

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift. ↗

— David O. McKay

#free #free agency #freedom #gift #god-given

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#consciousness #creature #even #human #human intelligence

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. ↗

— John Milton

#good #good book #lifeblood #master #precious

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#genuine #love #neither #nor #own

One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#disregard #mankind #precious #sees #souls

Sleep is very precious to me. I love to sleep. ↗

— Tia Mowry

#i love #love #me #precious #sleep

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#close friends #closest #closest friend #few #friend

Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#important #line #movie #pace #phone

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ↗

— Mary Oliver

#me #plan #precious #precious life #tell