Hidden Treasure Quotes

• To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

  Akhenaton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Baby Boy, Son

  1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.25.

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• The
  trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start
  digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something
  will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.

  Debbi Fields

  Digging, Treasure, Enough

  Debbi Fields, Alan Furst (1987). “"One smart cookie": how a housewife's chocolate chip recipe turned into a multimillion-dollar business--the story of Mrs. Fields cookies”, Simon & Schuster

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• Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited.

  Stephen White

  Waiting, Secret, Treasure

  Stephen White (2007). “Dry Ice”, p.412, Penguin

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• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Money, Real

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• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Broken Heart, Dream, Silence

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.

  Tom Wujec

  Latin, Adventure, Mean

  Tom Wujec (1995). “Five Star Mind: Games and Exercises to Stimulate Your Creativity and Imagination”, Main Street Books

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• A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Mistake

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• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Silence, Broken Promises

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Philosophy, Book, Knowing

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.174, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Your soul’s desire are with you at birth like a hidden treasure chest of possibilities for you to discover as you grow and evolve into the person you were meant to be. Give voice to what you long for in the deepest place in your heart.

  Debbie Ford

  Heart, Voice, Long

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• A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Women, Good Woman, Treasure

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• ...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Gratitude, Memories, Past

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• Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Gold, Use

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will”, p.184, Classic Books Company

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• I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

  Djuna Barnes

  Eye, Giving, Criticism

  "The Songs of Synge : The Man Who Shaped His Life as He Shaped His Plays". New York Morning Telegraph, February 18, 1917.

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• There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  People, Treasure, Landscape

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• A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mistake, Good Friend, Secret

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• Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Mother, Journey

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• Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

  Dorothy Parker

  Good Woman, Looks, Treasure

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Valleys, Treasure, Bears

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• We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Digging, Treasure

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.100, Editora Dracaena

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• A contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

  Akhenaton

  Mind, Treasure, Trouble

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• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mistake, Good Friend

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• The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Treasure, Safe, Virtuous Woman

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• Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.

  Rumi

  Beauty, Son, Heaven

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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