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• The chemistry of mind is different from the chemistry of love. The mind is careful, suspicious, he advances little by little. He advises “Be careful, protect yourself” Whereas love says “Let yourself, go!” The mind is strong, never falls down, while love hurts itself, falls into ruins. But isn’t it in ruins that we mostly find the treasures? A broken heart hides so many treasures.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Strong, Hurt, Fall

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• Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Grace, Pearls

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

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• Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

  Marilyn French

  Fear, Self, House

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• Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Mean, Independence, Pakistan

  "Speeches and Writings of Mr. Jinnah". Book by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, p. 175, 1960.

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• I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Pain, Grief

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• He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

  William Shakespeare

  Forget, Juliet, Blind

  William Shakespeare (2012). “3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Thinking, Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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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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• Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Friends, Intellectual, Age

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.304

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• There is no treasure like the human heart.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Heart, Human Heart, Humans

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• If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Christian, Thinking, Widows And Orphans

  "Commentary: Our tragedy and God's love for orphans" by Steven Curtis Chapman, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2008.

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• Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

  Laozi

  Uplifting, Confidence, Motivation

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• Before you ever receive the wonderful treasures of a happy life, you must first give. Give of yourself. Be of service to others. Only what you give can be multiplied back into your own life.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Happy Life, Giving, Firsts

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• God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Truth, May

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.46, Oxford University Press

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• To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

  Sara Sheridan

  Reading, Hunting, Years

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• I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

  Paulo Coelho

  Alchemist, Adventurer

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

  Hesiod

  Men, Greatest Treasure, Tongue

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• I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

  Kofi Annan

  Environmental, Generations, World

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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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• Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Devil, Bottles

  Treasure Island ch. 1 (1883). Stevenson took the phrase dead man's chest from a pirate name for an isle in Charles Kingsley, At Last, ch. 1 (1870).

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• Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

  Ben Jonson

  Lying, Doors, Judging

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.145, Manchester University Press

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• There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.

  John Ortberg

  Rags, Dolls, Littles

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• Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Positive, Inspiring

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• I have seen the sun break through
  to illuminate a small field
  for a while, and gone my way
  and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
  of great price, the one field that had
  treasure in it. I realize now
  that I must give all that I have
  to possess it. Life is not hurrying
  on to a receeding future, nor hankering after
  an imagined past. It is the turning
  aside like Moses to the miracle
  of the lit bush, to a brightness
  that seemed as transitory as your youth
  once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

  R. S. Thomas

  Past, Break Through, Giving

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dust, Sea, Humanity

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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