Top 1200 Precious Possessions Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our intelligence, our love of family and friends and country. All of these priceless possessions are free.

My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.

Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

How precious you are in my life. I am forever grateful that God sent an angel to me. I love you most dearly.

what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our narrative of the government of God will record in ineffaceable letters the most peaceful wars waged in behalf of the peace of the soul.

You are supposed to have a dream of walking the red carpet. But I'm really not like that. Because fame is... I don't think it is something interesting or precious.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?

As parents, you may confidently rear your children according to Gods Word. While bringing up your children, you are to remember that your children are not your 'possessions' but instead are the Lords gift to you. You are to exercise faithful stewardship in their lives.

I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.

If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it boring when collectors found their own private museums or try to establish a memorial to themselves in the form of their collections, it's part of the old aristocratic mentality. I think a collection ought to be dismantled after the collector's death.

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

The good thing about people who are corporate is that they're stupid. So they can be touching something that's precious or radical or special, and they miss the point completely.

Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

Why waste precious time and energy trying to be someone you're not when you can put it to much better use simply being yourself?

You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.

What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.

A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.

One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights.

Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.

Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive.

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

I'm an equal-opportunity critic when it comes to left-wing celebrities sounding off on topics of which they know precious little.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.