#valued

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#grandmother #smallest #things #valued

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ↗

— Socrates

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She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#children #courted #dogs #else #everybody

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. ↗

— Kate Chopin

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Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#undervalued #vanity

First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#everybody #feel #first #foremost #fun

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#better #less #money #more #supposedly

Health is not valued till sickness comes. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#health #sickness #till #valued

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#back #creativity #energy #excitement #exciting

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. ↗

— Tony Blair

#devalued #hopeless #just #modern #purchase