The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.
What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.
Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.
But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.
In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.
You will lose what you value most... It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It hadn't even been Dimitri's life. What you value most. It had been his soul.
