#treasures

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#compassion #courage #destroy #disaster #even

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#deep #enough #exotic #find #i

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#drudgery #earth #harrowing #mind #necessary

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. ↗

— May Sarton

#constant #disasters #few #garden #growth

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. ↗

— Walter Scott

#centuries #contemporary #diary #document #dull

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#i #kingdoms #lips #snatch #take

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered. ↗

— Tad Williams

#imagination #labor #my-life-story #treasures #imagination

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. ↗

— Felix Adler

#almost #attention #capital #civilization #country

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#conscious #hearts #moments #only #our

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. ↗

— James Madison

#burdens #declared #fruits #government #instead