#value

You can truly value life, when you have looked Death in the eyes and held its hand. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#life-philosophy #values-in-life #death

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#materialism #perception #quality #value #design

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality. ↗

— Henning Mankell

#reality #value #dreams

Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher. ↗

— Jan Mckingley Hilado

#personal-development #self-education #self-improvement #skills #value

I can visit that place any time I wish by calling up rich and vivid mind pictures of my summers there. These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself. ↗

— Karen Jones Gowen

#heritage #memories #family

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

— Confucius

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

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#talent #talents #value #work #faith

You remember all those phrases about how "these people" - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#any #around #asians #certainly #children

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#imagination

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

#angry #being #creativity #depressed #determine