Quotes About Priorities

I don't have time to read much. I'm trying to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' again, for a year now - I keep getting halfway, and then there's a lot of work, and I forget it, and I have to go back to the beginning.

Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that important to me? No. Is it something I've aspired towards? No.

We're gone for 280, almost 300 days a year. So 70 to 80 days I'm home every year. Being an artist, you just gotta be ready to miss certain things, like Halloween and all these kind of things that you used to be able to be free for. Birthdays, all this kind of stuff.

A large chunk of my free time during high school was spent in my basement playing 'Halo.' That was all I wanted to do. School dances? For the birds. It was Master Chief or bust. And I wouldn't change anything.

I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes.

Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?

My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don't have time for everything.

I think the tingles are important. They are real, and I am in favor of their survival. But they are not the basis for a satisfactory marriage. I am not suggesting that on should marry without the tingles. Those warm, excited feelings, the chill bumps, that sense of acceptance, the excitement of the touch that make up the tingles serve as the cherry on top of the sundae. But you cannot have a sundae with only the cherry.

The decision to get married will impact one's life more deeply than almost any decision in life. Yet people continue to rush into marriage with little or no preparation for making a marriage successful. In fact, many couples give far more attention to making plans for the wedding than making plans for marriage. The wedding festivities last only a few hours, while the marriage, we hope, will last for a lifetime

Material things are no replacement for human, emotional love.

Each of us has an individualized perception of the purposes of money, and we have various emotions associated with spendint it.

The key to quality time is found in the values and priorities you as parents determine to cherish and implement in your home.

Before marriage, we are carried along by the force of the in-love obsession. After marriage, we revert to being the people we were before we "fell in love.

We must first learn what is important to our spouse.

Material things are no replacement for human, emotional love. A wife says, "He ignores me all day long and then wants to jump in bed with me. I hate it." She is not a wife who hates sex; she is a wife desperately pleading for emotional love.

Keith, Allison's husband, had paid little attention to Allison's writing in the early days of their marriage. He was busy with his own profession and trying to make a place for himself in that world. In time, however, Keith had realized that life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments but in relationships.

what is precious to us. — Benjamin Venable, as told to Jeanette Levellie —

Don't love money; be satisfied with what you have. —Hebrews 13:5

Try putting God first today. — Mimi Greenwood Knight —

Don't love money; love the people and the God you can give it to. — Joseph Compaine —

Some couples believe that the end of the "in-love" experience means they have only two options: resign themselves to a life of misery with their spouse; or jump ship and try again. Our generation has opted for the latter

What good is the house, the cars, the place at the beach, or any of the rest of it if your wife doesn't love you?

you spend more time on Facebook than you do listening to each other, you end up more concerned about your hundred "friends" than about your spouse.

What is ironic is that we recognize the need for education in all other pursuits of life and fail to recognize that need when it comes to marriage. Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.