#precious

Depression is anger turned inward. ↗

— Sapphire

#precious #anger

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. ↗

— Confucius

#loyalty #precious-things #treasures #value #virtues

An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals. ↗

— Steve Smy

#gemstones #imagination #jeweller #precious-metals #words

As we hypnotically watch the steadily diminishing reserve of sand in life's hourglass, the instincts of a miser surface. Life is now savored, sipped as with a fine 19th Century French wine. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#life #precious-life #wine #life

Life is very precious. ↗

— Brian Harvey

#precious #very

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#anything #easier #everybody #going #hard

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#jewel #most #nation #poet #precious

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#liberty #most #possessions #precious

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed. ↗

— James Buchan

#assertive #commodities #crude #crude oil #dictation

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#balanced #dad #good #grounding #i