Quotes About Priorities

Hay quienes quieren llegar a la luna, mientras nosotros aún estamos tratando de llegar a la aldea

There are those who hold that to quibble over matters of taste in the basic necessities of life is an extravagance

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

That's white people for you. They lose a cat and it's an all-points bulletin, but we Dominicans, we lose a daughter and we might not even cancel our appointment at the salon.

Travel light, was all she ever said about the house when he suggested he buy her a lamp or anything, and he suspected that she would have said the same thing about having more friends.

Así son los blancos. Pierden un gato y hacen sonar la alarma y hay titulares en primera plana, pero nosotros, los dominicanos, perdemos una hija y puede que ni cancelemos la cita en la peluquería.

The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

It's all well and good to save the human race. You could say I'm in favor. But you might want to pay a little more attention to what's right in front of you.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective

I thought about Mom as she huffed at my side, trying so hard to keep up. How many times had I wanted to cringe when she begged Dad for every little thing: extra money for Christmas groceries so the boys could have their favorite meal — filet mignon for Claudius, rack of lamb for Merc. The car to bring me to the dermatologist. She never asked for anything for herself, yet without any hesitation, she'd humble herself for us.

We'd been gone for eleven days, and the first thing Dad had to say when he finally deigned to notice us from where he was sitting in the kitchen, reading his newspaper? "What are we having for dinner?

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.

Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

psicoanálisis como vocación».[73] Lo metafísico seguía teniendo prioridad para él.[74] Así, entre 1938 y 1941 sacó tiempo para asistir a los seminarios de Bernfeld, un grupo de estudio que en 1942 dio lugar a la constitución del Instituto y Sociedad Psicoanalítica de San Francisco.

Instead of worrying what others think of you, concentrate on what you care about instead.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

I'm as into clothes as the next girl, but the woman who goes through all this with me treats it like it's a matter of life and death.", FADE by Kailin Gow.

You are not the first Heterodyne to be more concerned with destruction than with the continuation of the family.

He knew it was a paramount failure of friendship to disappear into a relationship, but to be in his friends' company now felt like stepping back into the aimlessness that had characterized his life before Aneeka came along and became both focus and direction.

This is how you know you aren't young any more: you start to care more about thread count than immediate gratification.

That she was now more tired and forgetful, while able to do three times what she had been able to do when she was somewhat less tired and forgetful but also stressed, guilty, grouchy, and overwhelmed, seemed a small price to pay.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.