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Values Quotes
"A wise man lays up treasures in the Kingdom of our Father, so as to live a happy eternal life."
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"Most of us try to just live with what society tells us is important."
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"I've come to gamble."The old man's mouth twitched. He put down his shish kebab and leaned toward Percy. "A gamble...how interesting. Information in exchange for the harpy? Winner take all?""No," Percy said. "The harpy isn't part of the deal."Phineas laughed. "Really? Perhaps you don't understand her value.""She's a person," Percy said. "She isn't for sale."
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"Celebrate and appreciate people that cannot reward you."
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"Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget."
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"If one follows what is in one's heart (let's leave out mind for the moment), one ends up with what one truly values and loves in life-and one acts accordingly. One's own private indulgent cyclic habitual reactive subjective transitory feelings are, hopefully, not at the head of that list."
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"Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems."
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"Social work is an opportunity for huge hearts they remember to do small things."
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"Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish."
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"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
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"There is no value to anything in this world, at the same time there is no need to 'devalue' anything."
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"Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more."
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"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all."
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"Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?"
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"Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."
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"The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was-after which you pray like mad to regain what you foolishly lost. The value of an item often depends upon how hard it is to attain."
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"Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires."
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"The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified."
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"My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that "doesn't count," i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational - not relating their one action or one conviction to another."
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"If man's life value for women and if she need man,believe me she can not Broke his swear never in any situation,in any condition."
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"In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil."
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"August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--'Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't...August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters."
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"The garbage can is for things that have no importance. If it did have some value, it no longer has any."
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"Your choices of values and determining their priority precedes your goal setting."
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"A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect."
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"You only value something if you know it'll end."
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"I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command not obey."
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"I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes."
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"I have a thing for things that last."
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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
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"The person who is rich is the one who possess kindness, caring, help others when needed, gives things that money can't buy, and spend time with those who need someone to listen to their stories. Sometimes money isn't needed."
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