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• When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide. We calculate their value to us. When we approach relationships in this manner, we are coming as beggars, seeing the other as a source of supply. When we can enter a relationship with our treasure house already open, there is no end to the wonders we can find, both within and between ourselves and another.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Relationship, House, Firsts

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Children, Winning

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• Little Jimmy Dickens has long been a musical hero of mine and one of the finest entertainers to ever step on any stage. I was deeply honored to call him a friend and will always remember the time I got to spend with him. The music world has lost one of our greatest treasures. Rest in peace, my little friend. You were loved by so many of us!

  Charlie Daniels

  Rest In Peace, Hero, Greatest Treasure

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• Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wise, Gratitude, Greatest Treasure

  "The Oprah Winfrey Show Finale". www.oprah.com. May 25, 2011.

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

  Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix

  Sacrifice, Shrines, Purity

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• Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine.

  Gwen Davis

  Giving, Special, Interviews

  Gwen Davis (1976). “How to survive in suburbia when your heart's in the Himalayas”

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• I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Summer, Games, Years

  "Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee". www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.

  Francisco Leon

  Motivational, Lying, Thinking

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• The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed that enjoyment the most pleasing to their ear. They deserved, they assumed, they maintained the honourable epithet of Franks or Freemen; which concealed, though it did not extinguish, the peculiar names of the several states of the confederacy.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Names, History

  Edward Gibbon (1835). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.102

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• Education does not mean knowledge (gyan) only, it also contains a life within it; it is not an arrangement, it is a duty. It is not merely a means of livelihood; it is the precious treasure of the noble tradition of giving, bestowing.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Mean, Giving

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• Marriage is a sleepy guard to which one confides one's dearest treasure, love.

  Libbie Block

  Marriage, Sleepy

  Libbie Block (1957). “The hills of Beverly”

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• Its very important that people know that I really enjoy everything that has happened to me. And I tell my kids... youre not going to be the tallest, fastest, prettiest, the best track runner, but you can be the nicest human being that someone has ever met in their life. And I just want to leave that legacy that being nice is a true treasure.

  George Foreman

  Nice, Kids, People

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• The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

  Mark Helprin

  Laughter, And Love, Movement

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This powerful, practical book, based on years of proven and profi table experience, shows you how to leverage your special talents to maximize the opportunities surrounding you. The Compound Effect is a treasure chest of ideas for achieving greater success than you ever thought possible!

  Brian Tracy

  Powerful, Book, Opportunity

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• As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.

  Valerie June

  High Heels, Guitar, Ukulele

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• A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

  Eden Phillpotts

  Greatest Treasure, Happy Marriage, Fortune

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• Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

  John Jay Hooker

  Dignity, Life Is, Great Experiences

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• Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a bottomless abyss, immediately beyond physical recollection.But it's all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered. Returned to the mountains with my blessing. It leaves a golden glowing on the mind.

  Edward Abbey

  Pain, Heart, Blessing

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• The Universe favors the brave. When you resolve to lift your life to its highest level, the strength of your soul will guide you to a magical place with magnificent treasures.

  Robin Sharma

  Brave, Soul, Levels

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• The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that one day, you are the most valuable creature in the world - a treasure, a princess, a prize.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Princess, One Day, Wedding Day

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• Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

  Sue Townsend

  Hate, People, Golden

  "Sue Townsend: 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young staffer, he never treated me or my colleagues as anything else but equals.

  John Yarmuth

  Memories, People, Bakers

  "Howard Baker: Courageous Leader and Congressional Cutup" by Rep. John Yarmuth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2014.

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• The real treasure, that which we all seek, is never very far; there is no real need to seek it in a distant place, for it lies buried within our own hearts. And yet, there is this strange and persistent fact that it is only after a journey in a distant region, in a new land, that the way to that treasure becomes clear.

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Real, Lying, Heart

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• God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

  John Ortberg

  Strong, Character, People

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• Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Recovery, Church

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

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