Quotes About Priorities

I do not have AC, TV, microwave or a washing machine in my house.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.

I loved my parents and wanted to make them proud of me - but no longer at the cost of my own happiness.

She owns all these nice condos, but she lives in an apartment. Go figure. She calls herself a minimalist, preferring a simple life to one "cluttered with materialistic objects that serve no purpose other than to provide a place for dust to gather." Her words, not mine. But you gotta love someone who sees dusting and scrubbing as a poor use of one's time. "I've never seen a headstone inscribed 'May she rest in peace. She kept a clean house.

Sometimes what other people want is wantable, briefly, before dissolving in the face of your own wants.

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

I don't care who kissed you first, as long as I kissed you last - George (If we kiss)

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

Do not let your fears stand in the way of your happiness. If you're willing to let those fears be more important to you than the love you feel for him, then I would have to agree with what you said before. He does deserve someone better.

We have long understood that it is not income that matters but consumption. Stripped to its essentials, the argument is that if somehow the consumption of middle-class householders keeps up, if they can afford a new car every few years and the occasional exotic holiday, perhaps they will pay less attention to their stagnant monthly paychecks.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for anybody's damn sermon,

Jesus calls us to be primarily occupied with living for the kingdom. If we do this, He promises that the things we need for life on this earth will be given as well.

Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?

In Gandhi's view of the world, 'generally, it is the father who should be the bread-winner', while 'family life is the first and greatest thing. Its sanctity must remain.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.

If we could see our lives from God's perspective, many of us would be forced to admit that our lives are cluttered with all sorts of things that keep us from moving forward and receiving the abundant life he promises. We need to simplify our lives, eliminating the things that bog us down and keep us from doing what God says are priorities.

Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.

It doesn't matter how well you polish the underside of the banister." You

Somehow, with passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do.

People are more important then thing.

People are more important then things.