Quotes About Priorities

To love, we need to be sensitive to those around us, which is impossible if we are racing through life engrossed in all the things we need to do before sunset. In fact, I would go to the extent of saying that a person who is always late will find it difficult to love; he will be in too much of a hurry.

We are forced to make choices and set priorities, but being very conscientious, HSPs often put themselves last. Or at least we give ourselves no more time off or opportunity to learn new skills than anyone else. In fact, however, we need more.

And from what you've told me, Brian does an excellent job in that role, but a big dick ain't everything nor is licking you senseless with a thick tongue.

Is it more important to understand than to obey? Is it more important to me to know than to believe?

If in fact I do believe these great things we say and sing together, then those little things (and what is not little by comparison?)

A maneira como você mantém a sua casa, a maneira como você organiza seu tempo, os cuidados que você toma com sua aparência pessoal, as coisas com que você gasta o seu dinheiro, todos falam em voz alta sobre o que você acredita. A beleza da vossa paz brilha em uma vida ordenada. Uma vida desordenada fala em voz alta de desordem na alma.

Understandably, they, with others who knew Jim well, wondered if perhaps his ministry might not be more effective in the United States, where so many know so little of the Bible's real message. He replied: "I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers.

Nu este nechibzuit cel ce renunta la ceea ce nu poate pastra pentru a castiga ceea ce nu poate pierde.

Mis pacientes moribundos me enseñaron mucho más que lo que es morirse. Me dieron lecciones sobre lo que podrían haber hecho, lo que deberían haber hecho y lo que no hicieron hasta cuando fue demasiado tarde, hasta que estaban demasiado enfermos o débiles, hasta que ya eran viudos o viudas. Contemplaban su vida pasada y me enseñaban las cosas que tenían verdadero sentido, no sobre cómo morir, sino sobre cómo vivir.

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It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth—and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up—that we will begin to live each day to the fullest.

Why should I focus all my time on being productive so that someday I can enjoy my life? I'm enjoying it now.

Jonah said there was only one goal. Well, I don't see how that can be. We do a lot of things in the course of daily operations, and they're all important. Most of them anyway . . . or we wouldn't do them. What the hell, they all could be goals.

You always say that love and happiness are not for sale , that what is on your back and on your plate is second to what is in your heart.

He'd never been the materialistic type, anyway. As evidenced by the fact that, currently, he slept in a tent and drove a mustang. The real kind of mustang, lower case, and not the upper-case car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company.

Each day is God's gift of a fresh unspoiled opportunity to live according to His priorities.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Don't let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose.

Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness.

I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it's too late?

The earliest evidence of recognizable human art is forty thousand years old. The earliest evidence of human agriculture, by contrast, is only ten thousand years old. Which means that somewhere in our collective evolutionary story, we decided it was way more important to make attractive, superfluous items than it was to learn how to regularly feed ourselves.