#treasures

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

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#rich

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#being there #every #human #human being #inside

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#none #second #second-hand #treasures #worth

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#been #cash #church #down #heaven

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#beautiful #climatic #driven #earth #maintains

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. ↗

— Akhenaton

#cabinet #doors #lips #opened #out

Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#concern #continues #had #little #much

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#reading #treasures #love

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#knowledge #materialism #mind #money #objects