"Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are."
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"I want to say thank you to the great state of Indiana and all the fans.... Pacers Nation, Blue and Gold, thank you guys so much."
"Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold."
"Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold."
"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy."
"Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth."
"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."
"Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
"Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements."
"In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings."
"He buries gold who hides the truth."
"I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus."
"Every soul becomes gold when touched by the Beloved."
"The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute."
"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."
"It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels."
"A good heart 'is worth gold."
"Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold."
"Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver."
"There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from."