Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what...
We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represe...
All forms of destructions all around us. Destruction in values, destruction in people, destruction in faith, destruction in elders, destruction in the pulpit, destruction in the youth, destruction in...
Keep in Mind to be Kind.
The more choices you have, the more your values matter.
Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are.
People must be valued because of what they are rather than who they are.
Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-con...
By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.
Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
The sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to de...
A society with values, is a rich society.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of...
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Your life is your statement to the world representing your values, your beliefs, your dreams.
He had chosen to spend his days in the world of men. Life was what mattered, its slow, priceless pulse, its burning fragility; his debt lay with those importunate Flanders echoes that had never really...
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