#treasure

With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#enjoying-life #life #procrastination #treasure #youth

A knock down has never been a knockout unless you allow it. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#agu #be-different #chiyson #greater-glory #higher-life

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. ↗

— William Goldman

#garden #heart #hidden-treasure #love #secret

Everyone defends his treasure, and will do so automatically.The real questions are, what do you treasure, and how much do you treasure it? Once you have learned to consider these questions and to bring them into all your actions, you will have little difficulty in clarifying the means. The means are available whenever you ask. You can, however, save time if you do not protract this step unduly. The correct focus will shorten it immeasurably. ↗

— Helen Shucman

#ask #asking-for-directions #focus #focusing #inspirational

...everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #suffering #treasure #love

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#priorities #treasure #men

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! ↗

— Joseph Addison

#dwell #endless #hast #live #love

One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure. ↗

— Harriet Van Horne

#buried #channels #dark #searching #treasure