#treasures

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

#rich

...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

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#been #cares #enjoyment #gains #his

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#heart #him #man #most #road

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

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

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