Greatest Treasure Quotes

• Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

  Laozi

  Uplifting, Confidence, Motivation

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• Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Abuse, Tears

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Love, Happiness, Laughter

  FaceBook post by Yakov Smirnoff from Mar 27, 2014

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• The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Protect, Cornerstones

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Simplicity, patience, compassion.
  These three are your greatest treasures.
  Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
  Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
  Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

  Laozi

  Life, Patience, Philosophy

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• Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Prayer, Grace

  Pope Francis' Speech during the Meeting with Families at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines, w2.vatican.va. January 16, 2015.

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wise, Gratitude, Insightful

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

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• We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Heart, Mind, Born

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.107, Bloomsbury Publishing

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  The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.

  Judy Garland

  Heart, Eye, Invisible

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• In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Heart, Pet

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever who has brought you his tennis ball, the greatest treasure he possesses!

  Roger Caras

  Dog, Tennis, Trying

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• Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion. In attacking human life in its very first stages, it is also an aggression against society itself. Politicians and legislators, therefore, as servants of the common good, are duty bound to defend the fundamental right to life, the fruit of God's love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Evil, Pro Life

  Pope Benedict XVI's address at a Meeting on Family and Life Issues In Latin America, w2.vatican.va. December 3, 2005.

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• The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God’s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.

  L. Tom Perry

  People, Scripture, Instruction

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• The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

  Theognis of Megara

  Children, Parenting, Advice

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• Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.

  Thomas Eisner

  Cost, Complexity, Biodiversity

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• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

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• Hope is life's greatest treasure. If you have no hope, create some!

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Treasure, No Hope, Ifs

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• I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool.

  Julie Garwood

  Children, Giving Up, Order

  Julie Garwood (2012). “Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!”, p.439, Simon and Schuster

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• A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

  Brent Weeks

  Men, Illusion, Dark Humor

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• How can they be delivered from the life of self, who are not willing to abandon all their possessions? How can they believe themselves despoiled of all, who possess the greatest treasure under heaven? Do not oblige me to name it, but judge, if you are enlightened; there is one of them which is less than the other, which is lost before it, but which those who must lose everything have the greatest trouble in parting with.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Believe, Self, Names

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• If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Epic, Race, Long

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• Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  True Friend, Soul, Suffering

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

  Eden Phillpotts

  Happy Marriage, Fortune, Stills

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• Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most important and indispensable factor for all growth and development. It is in the tranquility and quiet of the night that the seed slowly sprouts from under the soil. The bud opens in the depth of the most silent hours. So also, in a state of peace and love, people evolve, grow in their distinctive culture, and develop perfect civilization.

  Sivananda

  Night, Civilization, Perfect

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• A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

  Hesiod

  Men, Tongue, Moderation

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