Quotes about Value

They will readily change truth for error, who find no more sweetness in the one than in the other.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

the true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." Einstein

Our lives unfold only in moments. If we are not fully present for many of those moments, we may not only miss what is most valuable in our lives but also fail to realize the richness and the depth of our possibilities for growth and transformation.

In this regard, cultivating mindfulness is not unlike the process of eating. It would be absurd to propose that someone else eat for you. And when you go to a restaurant, you don't eat the menu, mistaking it for the meal, nor are you nourished by listening to the waiter describe the food. You have to actually eat the food for it to nourish you. In the same way, you have to actually practice mindfulness in order to reap its benefits and come to understand why it is so valuable.

The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and to let go of caring whether it will be of use or not.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put-off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.