Imagine in vibrant, wonderful detail your heart’s desire—a reality only you can envision, an adventure only you can direct.Then cradle your creation. Caress it. Mold it. Coddle it until it comes to life.And when your precious treasure grows so grand as to steal your breath away, set it free for all the world to experience. For that is how you live your dreams.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually be able to convert your time into any product you want.

Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one else has taken...yet.

If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.

All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.

Most people do not know how to exchange their lives for external treasures.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Our critics make us strong!Our fears make us bold!Our haters make us wise!Our foes make us active!Our obstacles make us passionate!Our losses make us wealthy!Our disappointments make us appointed!Our unseen treasures give us aknown peace!Whatever is designed against us will work for us!

Each of us has a latent energy and we need to discover this invisible "treasure by the way of concentration

Eyes speak louder than words; life is precious; hate is poison; God is the best of all possible friends; silence and time are valuable treasures; happiness can be just as powerful in pretend; and soft licorice is a temptation in any color, especially exotic black.

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

Stop searching and start revealing the treasures that reside inside of your heart.

The greatest treasures are invisible by the eye but found by the HEART. For where your treasure is, there your heart would also BE

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own.

The world will lose its treasures if everyone depends on someone to think for him/her! The world will lose its pleasures if everyone depends on someone to make him/her happy!

In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.

The search for wisdom is like a search for gold.

In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

The most wonderful pleasure on earth is in saving treasures in heaven... The most wonderful treasure lies in the pleasure of doing so... Live life so well!

People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care!

Be joyful and beautiful like a flower and share your treasures with the universe.

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.

I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.

The treasures in you must never be threatened by the gifts in others.

Thou shalt not search with desire; because the real treasures, they, will remain forever hidden from you.

One does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger.

It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.

Memories are those endless treasures, which we can keep exploring till eternity and bask in their glory like a slow swinging hammock!

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Those who clamour for true greatness are not swayed by the glamour of its treasures

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

Good health and happiness are life’s most precious treasures. Those who possess them are blessed.

She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within.

Everyone defends his treasure, and will do so automatically.The real questions are, what do you treasure, and how much do you treasure it? Once you have learned to consider these questions and to bring them into all your actions, you will have little difficulty in clarifying the means. The means are available whenever you ask. You can, however, save time if you do not protract this step unduly. The correct focus will shorten it immeasurably.

I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the very places where society mistakenly says life stores its scraps. And I am constantly amazed that in the treasure trove that surrounds me, I stand in the company of so few.

Our value is mirrored back to us through success only when we share the treasure we already are.

The greatest gift that you can give to me is not your treasures but your love.

In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt for that which we wish to bestow upon ourselves.

A wise man lays up treasures in the Kingdom of our Father, so as to live a happy eternal life

Women are pleasured treasures.

Regardless of all what you have done or the treasures you have acquired on earth, what counts before God is what you have invested in the Kingdom of God

To ‘stop and smell the roses’ we must first believe that there’s a rose garden out there somewhere. And in this jaded world of ours, the refusal to believe in gardens leaves most of us ref of roses.

The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.

To my amazement, miraculously, the lid suddenly loosened and slid all the way open, revealing its hidden cargo: A stack of small paper booklets. Dozens and dozens of them. Booklets made of ordinary sheets of white writing paper, folded in half, and hand-stitched along the spine. Booklets in remarkably pristine condition, all covered in a small, neat handwriting that I instantly recognized. The hair stood up on the back of my neck. I could hardly breathe.