Quotes About Priorities

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

Jesus said: 'Lay not up for yourselves treasure upon earth', 'Love not the world nor the things of the world', 'Woe unto you that are rich--it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.' Yet all these self-styled'Followers' of Christ made the accumulation of money the principal business of their lives.

The more they give up false security, the greater the opportunity they have for real security in genuine relationships built on honest choices and priorities. Only through breaking loose from bondage and fantasies of connection can we really be free to fulfill our human potentiality.

I don't have much time, I have to haul corpses. I don't have much time, I have to breath, eat, drink, sleep. I don't have much time, I have to keep the gears meshing. I don't have much time, I'm busy living. I don't have much time, I'm busy dying.

In choosing a man to help raise her children, a woman is only secondarily impressed by looks, whereas in choosing a short-term partner for sex, looks are much more important.

I'm sorry, but I have this fear that someday you're going to wake up a dried-out, bitter old hag with plenty of science awards but no personal life whatsoever. And you'll sit there at night and sob about how you've wasted your life.

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

Jek is too busy living. She won't waste time on regrets.

no man could make time, but only use that which he was given wisely.

Why, I suddenly wondered, had I wasted all those hours I could have spent with her? Why hadn't I gone with them, to listen to a bedtime story or nursery song?

most of the French generals were, indeed, totally indifferent to the welfare of the men, provided the attacks went in.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

Are you sure?" "I've never been more sure about anything. I want this. If you can't stay here, I'll go anywhere you want to go." "But Jack, you love it here!" "Don't you realize I love you more? I need you in my life. You and our baby. God, Mel—I don't care where that happens. As long as it happens.

originally walked away from material possessions because I felt the weight of them dragging me down. Now I don't own anything I can't afford to lose because I don't want to die one day trying to protect something I never should've cared about in the first place.

Now I don't own anything I can't afford to lose because I don't want to die one day trying to protect something I never should've cared about in the first place.

The world says, "Push to the front of the line!" Jesus says, "Go to the back of the line." The world says, "Brand yourself and blast your accomplishments all over social media!" Jesus says, "If you want to be great you have to first learn to serve.

He'd moved out once before and it hadn't worked out; he was still paying off bills from that fiasco, but he didn't seem to realize that it wasn't her goal in life to support him indefinitely.

It's funny, all the fussing and the fighting, the things that matter so much in life, all come to nothing, in death.

If you are afraid for your life, you don't think about others. You think only about the people you love, and even that may not be enough.

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Emily thought maybe it was simpler than that: Some people gave money instead of love because it was all they had to give. A full bank account and a life of good deeds achieved with money didn't mean a full heart or a giving soul—often just the opposite.

Once a woman has a husband and child, her time, her heart, her desires never quite belong to her again. A blessing some days, a burden others, like all the other gifts that life brings.

When life is reduced to the survival of someone you love, everything else reveals itself as trivial.

Nothing you buy will make you feel as good as money in the bank.