Treasure Quotes - Page 17

• To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

  Mason Cooley

  Fool, Austen, Jane

  6 Copy quote

• The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Air, Snakes, Desert

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.16, Rutgers University Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Depth, Helping, Thee

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Voice of the Silence”, p.13, BookRix

  85 Copy quote

  Show source

• Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

  Sophie Swetchine

  Daughter, Children, Tears

  4 Copy quote

• Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Life Is

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.54, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Home may be near, Home may be far - But it is anywhere love And a few plain household treasures are.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Women, Home, May

  8 Copy quote

• ... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Heart, Voice, Cold

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.146

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Want

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.108, Xist Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.

  Saadi

  Beauty, Jewels, Good Woman

  148 Copy quote

• The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Men, Sea

  16 Copy quote

• Cracked pots allow the treasure to shine forth.

  James N. Watkins

  Encouragement, Shining, Pot

  6 Copy quote

• Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

  James A. Garfield

  Lonely, Yield, Sea

  11 Copy quote

• Jesus literally sliced through years of rabbinical law and cultural norms with the extreme love of God that sees the treasure in every human heart.

  Danny Silk

  Jesus, Heart, Years

  11 Copy quote

• More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures.

  Ronald Reagan

  Tree, Firsts, Toys

  Reagan, Ronald (1986). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1984”, p.1900, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq and said it would take a few months.

  Barack Obama

  War, Blood, Iran

  "Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee joins Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room". cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. July 21, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Great master Lao Tzu says that 'The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.' Giving is indeed a very good source of happiness! One of the best treasures a man can give to someone is a good and sound idea; because birds can ascend into the sky only with wings, and men, only with good and sound ideas!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Men, Sky

  22 Copy quote

• I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

  John McCain

  Memories, War, Compassion

  4 Copy quote

• The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return.

  Brian Tracy

  Love You, Greatest Treasure, People

  9 Copy quote

• Sometimes I feel if I was young again, I would wrap a bandana around my head like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and I would become a pirate of the Web. And I would go around stealing poems and assembling into one spot like a treasure cave.

  Clive James

  Pirate, Caves, Sometimes

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Art Beat, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The problem with saying yes all the time is that it won't make you Wonder Woman. It'll make you a worn-out woman. And soon you'll find the relationships you treasure most are constantly getting your 'less' instead of your 'best' because of your endless to-do list and overwhelming schedule.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Saying Yes, Schedules, Wonder Woman

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Religious, Jesus, Real

  15 Copy quote

• The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Liberty, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.40, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Memories, Distance, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• From day to day, from moment to moment, she increased so much this twofold plenitude that she attained an immense and inconceivable degree of grace. So much so, that the Almighty made her the sole custodian of his treasures and the sole dispenser of his graces. She can now ennoble, exalt and enrich all she chooses. She can lead them along the narrow path to heaven and guide them through the narrow gate to life. She can give a royal throne, sceptre and crown to whom she wishes.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Giving, Heaven

  42 Copy quote

• We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them for thirty minutes about anything I want to. It's a wonderful treasure that we are to steward.

  Max Lucado

  People, Want, Wonderful

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source