#precious

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what? ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#best #cranking #go #got #i

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is. ↗

— Mick Fleetwood

#how #magic #musical #precious #process

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#appreciate #before #day #each #find

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#liberty #must #precious #rationed #true

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. ↗

— John Lennon

#after #cupboard #get #gift #going

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. ↗

— John Locke

#balance #beams #downwards #every #excellent

Time becomes more precious when you have children. ↗

— Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

#children #more #precious #time #you

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift. ↗

— David O. McKay

#free #free agency #freedom #gift #god-given

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#consciousness #creature #even #human #human intelligence

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#genuine #love #neither #nor #own