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• One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Would Be, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.249, Xist Publishing

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• It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Discovery, Appreciate

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.10, Rodale

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• Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.

  T.I.

  Children, Real, Mean

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough to say something to each other so often.

  Johan Bruyneel

  Powerful, Communication, Simple

  Johan Bruyneel, Bill Strickland (2009). “We Might As Well Win: On the Road to Success with the Mastermind Behind Eight Tour de FranceVictories”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The true value of a big dream is who you must grow into to live that dream.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Bigs, Grows

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jan 17, 2012

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• The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.

  Richard Baxter

  Vanity, World, All Things

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• I don't like a bipolar or a unipolar world. I like a multipolar world but on many occasions people have been surprised that South Africa has not seemed, internationally as well as internally, to take a decision that affirms the true values of your Constitution and the vision of those who were there at the beginning - Madiba himself and others.

  Mary Robinson

  People, Decision, Bipolar

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?

  Paul Valery

  Photography, Simple, Historical Knowledge

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• It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.

  Erica Jong

  Artist, Green, Dirt

  Erica Jong (1988). “Serenissima”, Dell Publishing Company

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• By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Assessment, Play, Trying

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• It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Success, People, Use

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.13, The Overlook Press

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• Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

  Robert Redford

  Mean, Talking, Achieve

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• In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for wealth are always the two best stories. But while a love story is timeless, the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Love, Two, People

  Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.15, Penguin

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• A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left.

  Harriet Morgan

  Long, Nonsense, Knows

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• In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

  David Graeber

  Schemes, Values

  David Graeber (2014). “Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years”, p.505, Melville House

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• The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can
  know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not meant for
  mere knowledge, but for the improvement of our minds. In order to do
  that, it must be part of our life. If you put religious doctrine in
  a building and when you leave the building depart from the practices,
  you cannot gain its value.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Order, Practice

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

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• Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.

  Tahir Shah

  Real, Loneliness, Home

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• Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values

  Thomas S. Monson

  Stress, Self, People

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• Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe.

  Donald Curtis

  Fall, Simple, Simplicity

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• Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Liberty, Slavery, May

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• To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Real, Track, Judgement

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• True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level by those who live them.

  Dave Snowden

  Learning, Knowledge, Levels

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• Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.

  Marcel Wanders

  Luxury, Design, Opulence

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• Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Spiritual, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectability is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent and proud. If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Real, Humility, Men

  "Anti-Goeze (1778)". "God Is Not Great". Book by Christopher Hitchens. Chapter 19, 2007.

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