Quotes About Priorities

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

But I wanted to figure out how to be a mom without having to figure out how to be a professional on top of it.

Once my life had been defined by my goals: to be a da-dui-zhang, to participate in the exhibition, to be a Red Guard. They seemed unimportant to me now. Now my life was defined by my responsibilities. I had promised to take care of my family, and I would renew that promise every day. I

Then it crosses my mind, 'But I'm a very busy woman! I don't have time for a stroke!'

What if, when you woke up in the morning, ALL you had LEFT was what you had thanked God for the night before?

Rich old people are more attractive than poor old people, so by all means, try to get rich before age sets in. Otherwise, you'll just be playing catch-up for the rest of your life and that will just wear you out, let me tell you.

Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.19

If you marry for money, you end up earning every penny.

Love makes the world go 'round but I'm pretty sure money has to do with it, too.

But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

How is it that Christians today will pay $20 to hear the latest Christian artist in concert, but Jesus can't draw a crowd?

All over America, churchgoers chafe at a Sunday morning service that runs an hour and ten minutes, but have no problem with three-hour football games on television.

Fuck fashion in the face of need, and fuck it anyway just on good general principles.

The basic question is not how much of our money we should give to God, but how much of God's money we should keep for ourselves.

So many people postpone joy until they have achieved.