#treasure

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible? ↗

— Elizabeth II

#counsel #found #greater #house #imperishable

Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard. ↗

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#beautiful #life-inspirational #simple-joys #treasures #nature

...it was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of the pages. "Here, do you see this marvelous book, the skins of 182 sheep," he once pronounced as he slapped his hand down on the stamped leather cover boards. "The book is a flock, a jewel, a cemetery, a lantern, a garden, a piss pot; pigments ground of precious minerals, charred bone, lamp soot, rare plants and insects. Pigments formed at the corrosion of copper plates suspended above urine. ↗

— Regina O'Melveny

#book-lovers-addiction #history #treasures #art

If you find a man who trusts you, who isn't afraid, who sees you for who you are, and if it feels like he knows you for who it is that you simply are, and thinks all of that is beautiful; know that you have found a rare thing. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#men #relationships #the-nature-of-men #women-and-men #women-s-inspirational

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#confidence #contentment #friend #greatest #health

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#compassion #greatest #i #just #patience

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#gives #his #lay #man #more

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#golden #hid #hinges #inside #key

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know. ↗

— Will Wright

#cool #every #failures #find #hunt

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#art #gallery #humans #kind #look