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To value is to consider something as useful or important

• Value: Consider (someone or something) to be important or beneficial; have a high opinion of. Oxford Dictionary
• Value: To consider with respect to worth, excellence, usefulness, or importance.  Dictionary.com
• Gratitude,  Appreciation,  Life is a gift,  Embrace the gift of today

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Value is a highly subjective and personal thing

• There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you. Charles Dudley Warner
• How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others. Ashly Lorenzana
• Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the things itself, by people. John Barth

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Are you valuing the right things?

• It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. Sigmund Freud

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Value yourself

• A person’s worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves. Jean De La Bruyere
• Every decision you make stems from what you think you are, and represents the value that you put upon yourself. A Course In Miracles
• He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. Johnson
• Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. Ayn Rand
• Other very important practical actions include looking after your physical needs for rest, sleep, exercise, and nutritious food. By taking care of yourself, you are sending a strong message to your subconscious that you value yourself, and that you are worth taking care of. Amanda Harvey
• People of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others. They do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. Nathaniel Branden
• People who like themselves and realize that they are God’s creation, are never really lonely. It is only when we lose track of our own value, and our personal connection with the divine, that we are desperate for others to distract us from our loss.  Richard Nelson
• Self-worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other- worth. Wayne Dyer
• The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. Ayn Rand
• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. Malcolm S. Forbes
• When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death – ourselves. Eda LeShan
• What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. Edgar Z. Friedenberg
• Self-esteem,  Self-worth

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… including your flaws and imperfections

• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Confucius
• To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. Sandra Bierig

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Undervalue yourself and you’ll be undervalued by others

• When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are. Oprah Winfrey
• He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. William Hazlitt
• When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa. Suze Orman

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Value what you love to do

• It’s actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value. Jonathan Ive
• Success begins by listening to your inner calling and wisdom. What do you truly value and enjoy? What is your heart trying to tell you? Is there something that you have an inner need to pursue? These are the types of questions that will put you on your path toward greatness. Richard Carlson
• We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike. David Ansen
• Do what you love

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Value life …

• If you don’t regularly acknowledge the bounty of your life, you’re simply missing a great opportunity to gently and graciously add immense value to the quality of living. Brad Swift
• The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.  Albert Einstein
• The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle
• We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about. Joseph Campbell
• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates
• If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Embrace life

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… especially through the contemplation of death

• Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.  Paul Theroux
• Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things. Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro
• I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death. Ingrid Betancourt
• For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Value the meaning you place on life

• We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed. Joan Chittister
• There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau
• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. Hermann Hesse
• “Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away. Joseph Wood Krutch
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Value time

• A sense of the value of time–that is, of the best way to divide one’s time into one’s various activities–       is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.  Arnold Bennett
• Guard well you spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. Ralph Waldo Emerson  
• In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. Malcolm X
• I value my time. I choose to use it wisely and do not let others steal it from me. Paula Peisner
• Know the true value of time! Snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no procrastination. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Philip Chesterfield
• Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. M. Scott Peck
• I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death. Ingrid Betancourt
• Time, Manage time wisely

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Value the present moment

• Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments.  Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you’ve lost them forever. Wayne Dyer
• Every second is of infinite value. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• If you then become excessively focused on the goal, perhaps because you are seeking happiness, fulfillment, or a more complete sense of self in it, the Now is no longer honored. It becomes reduced to a mere stepping stone to the future, with no intrinsic value. Your life’s journey is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to ‘make it.’ You no longer see or smell the flowers by the wayside either, nor are you aware of the beauty and the miracle of life that unfolds all around you when you are present in the Now. Eckhart Tolle
• We don’t have in our culture a healthy understanding and respect for the value of Being, which is simply being present in the moment, not trying to go somewhere, not trying to accomplish anything but, just present. Shakti Gawain
• I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future. Robert Walser
• Now is a priceless gift,  Live in the present

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Value simple pleasures

• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J.R.R.Tolkien
• Savouring,  Savour life’s simple pleasures

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Value your health

• Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. Josh Billings
• Health is not valued until sickness comes. Thomas Fuller
• Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can’t buy. Izaak Walton
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Value what you have now…

• Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. Christiane Northrup
• People exaggerate the value of things they haven’t got. George Bernard Shaw
• Things desired are oftentimes of less value than our present possessions. Edward Counsel
• Appreciation,  Gratitude

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… and not when it is gone

• We learn the value of things more in their loss than in their enjoyment.  Latin Proverb
• You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can. Richelle Mead
• Blessings are oftentimes not valued till they are gone. Thomas Fuller
• Loss

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Only own what you value

• Everything you own should have value, either because it’s functional or beautiful or you just love it. Andrew Mellen
• Minimalism,  Materialism

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Value relationships

• Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right. John Kador
• The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. Samuel Johnson
• The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy. . . and intimacy creates understanding. . . and understanding creates love.  Anaïs Nin
• The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. Peter De Vries
• In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced. Robert Sexton
• If you really want to be happy, don’t just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value. Tony Meloto
• The purpose of relationships

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Value friendship

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival. S. Lewis
• 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 longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. Samuel Johnson
• True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Charles Caleb Colton
• Value the friends you have while they’re around, you never know when they’ll be gone. Darin Gosling
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Value all people as the sacred souls they are

• Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. Nikolai Berdyaev
• Do you value people who won’t benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value. John C. Maxwell
• I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship. Brené Brown
• We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving. K. Rowling
• We are sacred spirits

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Being valued is the deepest human need

• Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.  Princess Diana
• The deepest craving of human nature is the need to feel valued and valuable. The secret of charm is therefore simple: make others feel important. Brian Tracy
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Value love

• It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.   Mark Twain
• Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Stephen Covey
• Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. Thornton Wilder  
• A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.  Thomas á Kempis
• 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  
• To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. Charles Lindbergh
• Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. Ayn Rand
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Value compassion

• The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands. Arthur H. Stainback
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Value kindness and caring

• A caring heart that listens is often more valued than an intelligent mind that talks.
• One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value. Jim Rohn
• The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. Graham Greene
• Kindness,  Caring

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Value your inner world

• Inner silence promotes clarity of mind. It make us value the inner world. It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges. Deepak Chopra
• We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about. Joseph Campbell

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Value silence

• Learning the value of silence is learning to listen to, instead of screaming at, reality: opening your mind enough to find what the end of someone else’s sentence sounds like, or listening to a dog until you discover what is needed instead of imposing yourself in the name of training. Monks of New Skete
• Silence,  Stillness

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Value patience

• Patience and tenacity of purpose are assets of infinitely greater value than cleverness. There is great strength in patiently waiting.  The sun, having set, comes up.  The tide ebbs, but always flows in again.  Fred van Amburgh
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Value knowledge by putting it into practice

• Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. Louis L’Amour
• Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• Knowledge,  Practice

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Value ideas and their implementation

• Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action. Peter F. Drucker
• I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value. Sir Ken Robinson
• The value of an idea lies in the using of it. Thomas A. Edison
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Value learning

• Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. Jean de La Fontaine
• The real value of any week is not only what is achieved but also what has been learned from it, and what you have become as a result of it. Stephen Covey
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Value growth

• When you see the value of continued growth, the circumstances around you become stepping stones. Clyde M. Narrimore
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Value challenging and painful times

• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it. Norman Vincent Peale
• Life will provide challenges. It’s an intrinsic part of living. See the value in each challenge. It is an opportunity for growth and learning. Love challenges like an athlete loves training. Behram
• Most people have come to prefer certain of life’s experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness. Rachel Naomi Remen
• Challenge,  Adversity,  Pain

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Value practice

• That’s why it’s called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value. Allan Lokos
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Value common sense

• One of the great maladies of our time is the way sophistication seems to be valued above common sense. Norman Cousins
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Value money …

• If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.  Benjamin Franklin
• Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience. T Barnum
• The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.   L. Mencken
• Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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… but not too much

• Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. Alexandre Dumas
• Money is valueless, except as it will satisfy wants. Edwin T. Freedley
• Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. Barbara Kingsolver
• Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value. Sachs
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Value joy

• To get the full value from joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain
• You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous. Abraham-Hicks
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Value fun

• Creative individuals place a high value on fun because it enables them to soar in their other pursuits. Jordan Ayan
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Value goals but for the right reason

• The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. Jim Rohn
• Goal setting,  Intention

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Value action

• My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.  Og Mandino
• The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn. Peter McWilliams
• Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.  Garrett Hardin
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Value differences and diversity

• The essence of synergy is to value differences—to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses. Once people have experienced real synergy, they are never quite the same again. They know the possibility of having other such mind-       expanding adventures in the future. Stephen Covey
• The greatest benefit of synergy is born in the diversity of perspectives. The highest value can be found in these variances.  Too much of the same does not create change in the same way, does not produce the sweetest fruits for all, and gets old quick.  Danielle Marie Crume
• We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. Maya Angelou
• Your value is in your individuality. Dorla Rudd Jenkins
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Value tolerance

• How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance – the one value that is indispensable in creating community.  Barbara Jordan
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Focus your energy and attention on what you value

• One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most. Deborah Day
• Lasting happiness cannot be gained through consumption. Happiness requires active participation in what we value. To do things well, enjoy them, and take pride in what we have done — these fertilize happiness. Richard Koch
• As we manage the hustle and bustle of our busy lives, finding opportunities to quietly be with ourselves may help us tend to the details of what we value most. Jenny Doh
• Attention,  Focus

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Remove from your life what you don’t value

• Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it. Joshua Becker
• Simplicity is marked by the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it. Joshua Becker
• Eliminate what is not important

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Focus on value more than price

• Price is what you pay, value is what you get.  Warren Buffett
• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde
• Anything that just costs money is cheap. John Steinbeck
• Value is more expensive than price. Toba Beta
• “Value is what people are willing to pay for it. John Naisbitt
• A thing is worth precisely what it can do for you; not what you choose to pay for it. John Ruskin
• Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Ann Landers

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Create value for the world and you will be prosperous

• I shall strive to make the most of my talents, to be of service, to create value, and to give back to the world. Marelisa Fabrega
• Instead of focusing on trying to make money, put your time and energy into creating value for others. Remember that money is simply a medium for exchanging value. Stop focusing on the effect (receiving money), and start focusing on the cause (value creation). Marelisa Fabrega
• Let your purpose involve creating something of value for others. Rahul Singh
• Money is a symbol of value exchange between people. The amount of money you earn is simply a representation of the value you are giving to others. To earn more money, simply create more value for others. Celestine Chua
• Stop thinking of what you can “get” from others (how much money you can make), and start focusing on what you can give (how you can increase the amount of value that you give to others). Marelisa Fabrega
• The key to happiness is not being rich; it’s doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.  Arthur Brooks
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Assess the value of your activities

• Everything that gets on our calendar needs to be assessed for its nutritional value. The guiding question becomes “Does this sustain me or exhaust me?” Danielle LaPorte
• Give up bubble gum activities: You know bubblegum; it is sweet and juicy until the taste runs out and you can fill it with hot air to impress others. It has little if any nutritional value, but you go for the next piece anyway to continue the habitual process of chewing.

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Through the horrible, you can learn to value the wonderful

• It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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Things of the greatest value are sometimes temporary

• Something that is yours forever is never precious. Chaim Potok
• And who’s to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value? Alice Steinbach
• Impermanence

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