All Quotes By Tag: Value

“Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.”

“If you really want to be happy, don’t just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.”

“Cheap booze is a false economy.”

“I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.”

“There are blue diamonds born to the world and given to those who only want glass crystals. There are blue roses born to the world yet given to those who only want daisies. Blue diamond, don’t cry because they want glass crystals. Blue rose, don’t bleed because they see only the daisies. You were formed in the bedroom of the gods, you were conceived in the garden of the eternal!”

“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”

“I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief… I’m not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]”

“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.[The New York Times interview, 2000]”

“A #loveselfie isn’t a picture or a status update. It’s an attitude of embracing, accepting, and valuing yourself, exactly as you are in each moment. It’s being one hundred percent present with yourself. Try it.”

“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”

“The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them.”

“Those who don’t value their words, will never value your wishes.”

“Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.”

“In seasons of hiddenness our sense of value is disrupted, stripped of what “others” affirmed us to be. In this season God intends to give us an unshakable identity in Him, that no amount of adoration nor rejection can alter.”

“The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.”