Margaret Stohl Quotes

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!

How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.

What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty, and without and stretch of thought or judgment, is but little regarded.

It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.

A thing that has no value does not exist.

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.

We have life. That's what's beautiful.

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

There's always beauty, if you know where to look.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.