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• The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Missing, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.49, New World Library

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• The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their ‘self.’ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Cancer, Self, Cells

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• She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

  John Green

  Girl, Hipster, Adventure

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.137, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.

  Ralph Maxwell

  Art, Junk, Disease

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• The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Men, Atheism

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.1, Courier Dover Publications

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• Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Health, Men, Sweat

  Michel de Montaigne (1759). “The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English”, p.580

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• Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.

  Andrew Lam

  Song, Waiting, Stories

  Andrew Lam (2005). “Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora”, Heyday

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• To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

  Elaine Scarry

  Errors, Kind, Made

  Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

  Robert Collier

  Life, Truth, Views

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• Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

  David Duval

  Fragile

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• We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Time, Water, Environmental

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• He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Names, Years, Expectations

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• I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let us follow it in modesty. The most precious thing that a girl has is her modesty and if she preserves this in dress, in speech, in action, it will arm, and protect her as nothing else will. But let her lose her modesty, and she becomes a victim of those who pursue her, as the hare is of the hound; and she will not be able to stand unless she preserves her modesty.

  L. Tom Perry

  Girl, Mother, Fashion

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• It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

  Richard Scarry

  Children, Helping, Language

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• The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

  George MacDonald

  Bible, Jesus, Biblical

  "An expression of character: the letters of George MacDonald".

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• I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Happy, Friends

  "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight".

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• You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

  Ben Feldman

  Men, World, Life Is

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• Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.

  Dalai Lama

  Brain, Location, Cherish

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• Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Solitude, Sorrow, Remember

  Song: Nothin'

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• If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Moving, Men, Things In Life

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• Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Truth Is, Propaganda, Should

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• It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.

  Michael Foot

  Country, Past, Rights

  Michael Foot's speech to the Union of Post Office Workers in Bournemouth, May 15, 1977.

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• Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Order, Generosity, Brave

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.157

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• There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money and get another one to replace it. But the moments of your life aren't like that. Once they're gone, they'll never return. Each and every one is the most precious thing in existence. You can never meaningfully compare one moment with any other. You can never meaningfully compare your life with anyone else's. No matter how rich someone else may be, no matter how happy they look, no matter how enlightened they seem, they can never be you. Never, ever, ever. Only you can live your life.

  Brad Warner

  Hard Work, Live Your Life, Matter

  Brad Warner (2005). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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