Treasure quotes
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"The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom."
"There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it"
"English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform."
"And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know."
"The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives."
"I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and I have nothing to show for it. No treasure house of collection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?"
"For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him."
"A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you leave the womb. And you are launched into another modality, a modality that perhaps you would not have chosen but that you cannot do anything about."
"The dangers gather as the treasures rise."
"There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure."
"Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable."
"Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed."
"Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'"
"It doesn't matter whether they [beloved ones] are on this planet or not on this planet anymore. Once something is bound by love, as long as that love exists, there is nothing that can separate us. There is the appearance of separation, but the heart, it always treasures and values that."
"The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it."
"God's foremost treasure on earth Is my ever-blossoming Gratitude-heart."
"Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure."
"The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated."
"The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure."
"The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge."
