Quotes About Priorities

Normally, we worry about our own material well-being and our neighbor's souls; let us rather worry about our neighbor's material well-being and our own souls" (Rabbi Israel Salanter).

A 'full' life in my experience is usually full only of other people's demands

It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

He woke with Max's arms wrapped around his torso and Max's genitals soft against his ass. And for the first time in days he wasn't aware of wanting anything but breakfast. Breakfast and Max. Not necessarily in that order.

It's one thing to give yourself permission to grieve. It's another to let loss define your life. If you let the loss become more important than everything that went before, you make everything that went before meaningless.

Put a person like this with four developing children and you're gonna need more than love poems and ice sculpture to stay afloat. Trust me. So. So, we're done here."

Thousands of hours they've been up studying and highlighting Bible passages while I've been sleeping, or watching baseball, or abusing myself carnally on a recliner.

In the past, the starting point of my relationships was what I wanted instead of what God wanted. I looked out for my needs and fit others into my agenda. Did I find fulfillment? No, I found only compromise and heartache. I not only hurt others; I also hurt myself, and most seriously, I sinned against God.

Look for, and work on becoming, a man or woman who, as a single, seeks God wholeheartedly, putting Him before anything else. Don't worry about impressing the opposite sex. Instead, strive to please and glorify God. Along the way you'll catch the attention of people with the same priorities.

A bagel shop isn't the most romantic spot to tell a girl you like her. But that night romance wasn't the priority. Our time there wasn't intended to be mushy. I didn't propose marriage or say I was madly in love with her, and she didn't swoon. What I did tell her was that through our friendship I'd grown to respect her.

Having a girlfriend was no longer my greatest need. Knowing and obeying Him was . I wanted to please Him in my relationships even if it meant looking radical and foolish to other people - even if it meant kissing dating goodbye.

I would rather be strong at heart than strong at mind

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

All I really needed to know about being a freelance assassin I learned before my youngest daughter, Trisha, started kindergarten.

I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.

The senior matriculation exams obliterate everything. Even, it seems to me, if a war were on in Canada, I'd be found studying like deaf Beethoven playing his piano while Vienna burned.

El tiempo, medido en dinero, es la droga más efectiva que existe. La dosificamos de forma cicatera y egoísta para dar la espalda a cualquier mínimo atisbo de sinceridad.

Perder dos horas a la semana en un lugar atestado de incienso restaría a mi vida exactamente 343 días. No se ofenda, pero no me parece un buen trato. Ni siquiera por una supuesta eternidad.

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.