#val

While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #gold #importance #love

Oh there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come. ↗

— Richard Llewellyn

#love

Having an education is invaluable. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#having #invaluable

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage ↗

— Al Gore

#marriage #values #marriage

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#philosophy #men

Lynne looked as if she were really having fun, Elizabeth realized. With a smile on her face and a sparkle in her eye, Lynne Henry was actually almost pretty! ↗

— Francine Pascal

#shallow-appearances #sweet-valley #beauty

This island has no secrets, not from me. It loves me, and I love it, and when I paint my face I'm a part of the island. The swarthiness of my face hidden behind the clay and charcoal. I leave behind England, it's not important anymore, our island is all that matters. The rhythm of the hunt, the sun, beats deep in my blood. The littl'uns play, eat, and sleep, there good for nothing and just take up precious space on my island. I couldn't have known a ship would pass at the exact moment my hunters left the fire. We needed the meat. Everything was perfect, the pigs on the mountain, the hunters and our spears, we had to go then. The hunt was perfect, the gouts and gouts of blood, the pigs death screams. But that stupid boat went by, and destroyed my trophy. Then Simon, stupid little Simon, gives the fat belligerent Fatty a piece of meat. He doesn't deserve it, the fat, ass-mar infected, fatty. The know-it-all that says he could do better, he wouldn't he'd do the exact same thing in my shoes. Damn him, damn them all! They should have just taken the meat. Then Ralph stands there and tells me I'm too malevolent. I even apologized. He doesn't deserve to be chief, he's weak. He wouldn't do it, he wouldn't kill. There's power behind the spear, impalpable to people like Ralph. We dominate those pigs. Now that we have found the way to kill the pigs, we don't even need to be rescued. It doesn't matter that there was no fire to signal the ship, because we needed the men for the hunt, and I don't regret it anymore because now we have meat. ↗

— William Golding

#genius #leadership-characteristics #survival #death

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most. ↗

— Deborah Day

#values #values-in-life #wisdom #business

As long as it’s an every man for himself kind of world, men will always be for themselves. - Mayor Bentley in 'Tilt ↗

— Ashley Chappell

#survival #men

If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#commercialism #core #core-of-the-soul #core-values #devil