Absolute Value Quotes

#1. It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

Ilchi Lee

#2. The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#3. To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.

Shunryu Suzuki

#4. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. You are an irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind, amazing being. There will never be another you and this fact alone makes you infinitely and absolutely valuable. Having absolute value means you cannot be diminished by anything or anyone. You are bulletproof and nothing can change your value.

Kimberly Giles

#6. The absolute value of being neutral is zero.

Toba Beta

#7. When a person feels appreciated for their infinite and absolute value, you can then communicate about any issue and you will have their cooperation and respect.

Kimberly Giles

#8. From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year ... death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

Graham Greene

#9. The objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves ...

Marcel Proust

#10. In life, we chase things like money and status, but there things have no lasting value relative to the soul. Only the soul has absolute value, which is why I believe it should be at the center of everyone's life

Ilchi Lee

#11. I officially give myself permission to be a work in progress. I do not have to be perfect to have absolute value. I am a student in the classroom of life and I am right on track in my personal process of becoming.

Kimberly Giles

#12. Not to be attached to something is to be aware of its absolute value. Everything you do should be based on such an awareness, and not on material or self-centered ideas of value.

Shunryu Suzuki

#13. Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

Kim Dae-jung

#14. Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.

Zadie Smith

#16. Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, What kind of peace?

Noam Chomsky

#17. Those who fully express their soul are peaceful, bold, and confident. They can be peaceful because they know that their essence is eternal, indestructible wholeness, and they are bold and confident because they know their own absolute value.

Ilchi Lee

#18. But an absolute value is not proven by logic or metaphysical arguments; it is accepted, believed (even when not discussed), and hedged about with taboos to protect it.

Rene Girard

#19. 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

#20. Absolute value: the distance that a given number is from zero on a number line . . . always a positive

Meg Cabot

#21. The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

William O. Douglas

#22. Unless they're utterly heartless, people put a certain value on human life. It keeps us from killing each other off for no reason. But for leaders like you and me, a moral high ground is too absolute. There are choices to be made.

Amanda Bouchet

#23. For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.

Edgar Ramirez

#24. Does fidelity even have any meaning in cases where it's not absolute? And what value does it have if it's going to be violated someday anyway? The smallest crimes are the largest. By perpetrating them you demonstrate that you are capable of anything.

Stig Saeterbakken

#25. It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art ... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.

Clement Greenberg

#26. Claritypoint: Choose to trust these two critical truths that are the opposites of the two core fears: 1) Your value is infinite and absolute because life is a classroom. 2) Every experience is your perfect classroom journey.

Kimberly Giles

#27. What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself? Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#28. First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ... Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.

Augusto De Luca

#29. Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities.

Sorin Cerin

#30. In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

Alfred North Whitehead

#31. Humans rarely choose things in absolute terms. We don't have an internal value meter that tells us how much things are worth. Rather, we focus on the relative advantage of one thing over another, and estimate value accordingly.

Dan Ariely

#32. Ryvah (Rahy-va), noun. 1. A state of being in which your own life ceases to have value except to become a tool of fate, whose only purpose is to fight for, and if need be, die for, the absolute unconditional right to freedom and love. 2. The ultimate pursuit of freedom.

M.J. Leonard

#33. The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.

Pat Summitt

#34. What was money when one's life was at stake? We had learned that nothing lasts and that no value is absolute. The only exception to that rule: freedom.

Miklos Nyiszli

#35. You cannot be diminished by what other people think of you. Your value is infinite and absolute. It does not change. What other people think of you is irrelevant.

Kimberly Giles

#36. I own the responsibility for determining my own value. I do not expect anyone else to make me feel valued and important. That must come from inside me. Once I know my value is set and absolute, I can accept love and validation from others, and believe it.

Kimberly Giles

#37. Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected.

Sunday Adelaja

#38. With no evidence for an afterlife, we should recognize the true value of our current lives as our one and only shot at happiness. Wasting it on unfounded claims and ancient myths is an absolute tragedy.

Armin Navabi

#39. Absolute scientific truth was like the speed of light, a value which could be approached but never reached.

Paul McAuley

#40. I like "multi-" ... multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement.

Rossana Condoleo