Quotes About Priorities

Hard decisions, sacrifices doesn't keep you warm at night, life's too damn short, too damn long to continue without someone at your side

When someone places more value in saving money, than the value they place in saving Life, they have "misplaced" their values.

Yes, it is perfectly fine to use your magickal abilities and knowledge to get ahead on this physical plane, to get money, friends, love, and fame. I frequently tell people that in the West it is difficult to be spiritual when you're wondering where your next meal will come from or how you will support your family.

They don't know this stuff because (a) their time was better spent making music; (b) they weren't interested; (c) it sounded too complicated; and/or (d) learning it was too much like being in school.

they are direct commands. This means too little time, too many responsibilities, too many kids, too much work, too little desire, too little experience, and so on are not excuses that exempt us from the expectation to pray.

We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective.

Pay Attention to What Is Important, Not Just What Is Quantifiable

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

I devised a list of things I needed to accomplish, all of them related to the Survival Kit and my mother. I was no longer going in any particular order or interpreting my tasks so literally and narrowly. They took on a life of their own, a life that I was giving them now.

I've got a meeting," she went on, not giving him a chance to respond. He nodded to the basket in her arms. "Yes, I can see that. Demanding lot, laundry.

So much of life is made up of questions that we think matter today but are forgotten tomorrow.

I WILL TELL YOU THE one thing that I have learned about life in my thirty-something years that is an absolute truth: nothing and no one in this entire world matters more to a sane woman than her children. I have one

Whatever the ostensible purpose may be, it is plain that one motive is at work in all these cases: the intention, often unconscious, to fill life so full of secondary activities or substitute activities that there will be no time in which to perform the best work of which one is capable. The intention, in short, is to fail.

If we would give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two week's vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

Putting everything on hold to achieve the one thing you think will make you happy will actually mean that you're miserable along the way to getting there, and when you get there, you might find that the thing wanted doesn't make you as happy as you thought it would. Or worse, you've completely forgotten how to be happy.

You can never compete with someone's first love.

Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.

People will always choose more money over more sex.

busyness is usually a sign of brokenness.

The chase causes you to be overcommitted and under-connected. Something has to change, or your marriage will suffer the consequences.

Stop worrying about your credits and consider enjoying your day. You die at the end.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.