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“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”
Joseph Campbell
“Unless we know the value of other religious traditions, it is difficult to develop respect for them. Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony. We should strive for a spirit of harmony, not for political or economic reasons, but rather simply because we realize the value of other traditions. I always make an effort to promote religious harmony.”
Dalai Lama
“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
Hermann Hesse
“The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings”
Clark Moustakas
“What men value in this world is not rights but privileges”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”
Ray Kurzweil
“When you see the value of continued growth, the circumstances around you become stepping stones.”
Clyde M. Narrimore
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion”
Simone de Beauvoir
“The crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value is creativity.”
John Kao
“Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.”
Ayn Rand
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