Quotes about Value

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

We immortals aren't misers - we don't hoard! Such things are pointless.

A thing is valued, she says, only if it is rare and hard to get.

but love was undependable, it came and then it went; so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you made sure you were fed enough and not damaged by too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor money value and having one of these things was better than having nothing.

Nothing should be carelessly thrown away, not even wine from sinful places. There was no such thing as garbage, trash, or dirt, only matter that hadn't been put to a proper use.

Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.

Free love," Aunt Beatrice said scornfully. "It's never free. There's always a price.

Single strand of pearls, wild, not cultured. (Worth it, she said: only the wild ones had souls.)

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time