Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'
Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.
Courage is the rarest of all good traits
Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest.
Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.
God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.
Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men-both of them Daryl Farmer-this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn't want this to end.
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
. . . the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
