Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value
Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?
These are icons to be treasured.
There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.
Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
Youth is a lifestyle; it's not a blessing from God. If we treat our bodies as if they are not the most precious things we possess, then obviously we will show wear and tear. We're like a good pair of jeans. If we take care of them, they'll remain classic forever, but if we batter and abuse them they'll look like tattered old rags.
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost
I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.
I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don't ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me.
The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
I've had fans do some pretty awesome things... I once had a fan do a mock proposal for me in Mumbai, inside a McDonalds... and I've had fans give me some precious things. I had one fan give me her mother's ring; I've gotten some pretty intense stuff. And I always get drawings and scrapbooks from fans, which is also pretty cool.
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.
These precious things, let them bleed.
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.
