#treasures

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

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. ↗

— Roger Caras

#greatest #historical #museums #others #our

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks. ↗

— Tony Snow

#ability #authority #enterprise #every #flow

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#got #instrumental #longer #treasures

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#charms #dreams #heart #hidden #hopes

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

— Confucius

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

On the dresser was a row of blue-and-white jars that weren't very useful for anything. They'd been left to her mother by an elderly aunt, and she was proud of them because they looked nice but were completely useless. There was little room on the farm for useless things that looked nice, so they were treasured. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#useless #men

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

When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#belong #find #guardian #new #pyramids