The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Henry David Thoreau
Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.
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Toba Beta
Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for – because one...
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Suzy Kassem
As long as you are ready to pay this price for living in the light (knowledge) the darkness (ignorance) becomes a servant to you.
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Sunday Adelaja
It can be accepted that there is a price for man's work, time spent or service done, but never for human dignity.
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Eraldo Banovac
More Quotes By Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed...
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
