All Quotes By Tag: Value
“The pursuit of wealth grants no friends. Perhaps, it is a lesson too many strive to learn on their own. One day, I looked at myself in the mirror and found someone much older but with few valuable memories to show for the elapsed time. I was alone. I started drinking. I lost everything. They say that we are all just three steps away from homelessness. They are right. I lost anyone who ever cared for me. I lost my mind. And I lost my money.”“I’m sorry for your losses…” offered Shane genuinely.“Don’t be sorry, kid. I do not regret my homelessness. It has taught me some important lessons. Instead, I regret the approach and decisions I took when I had money. I take pleasure in the small things now. Time is on my side. I do not expect you to understand it, but my life is longer than it was ever before.”
“There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things.”
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“Never waste time for someone who doesn’t bother to spend time with you, but with someone who will say, time is wasted if I’m not with you.”
“A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.”
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“Your religion doesn’t determine your value here on earth, maybe in the next one; but it is your growth and relevance to your fellow humans that does.”
“A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.”
“You are better than none and you are worse than none. You, as yourself, have your own value.”
“When what you have looks like nothing remember God gives you your future first!”
“It perhaps might be said–if any one dared–that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.”
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“I don’t see how you can write anything of value if you don’t offend someone.”
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“You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I’ll let you keep one. Which will it be?”
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“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”
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“You ask me why I don’t speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill’Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it’s how it mends it”
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