Quotes About Priorities

No longer will you worship human love, or success, money, or power, nor any symbol thereof. You will set aside these things as a child sets aside toys. Not because they are unworthy, but because you have outgrown them.

What differentiates societies, and beings within societies, is what they define as pleasurable. If a society is structured largely around pleasures of the body, it is operating at a different level from a society structured around pleasures of the soul.

Este, probabil, un moment bun pentru a-È›i reseta priorit??ile. S? decizi, din nou, ceea ce este important pentru tine. Dac? a trecut ceva timp de când ai facut asta, poate ar trebui s? te opreÈ™ti din ceea ce faci si s?-È›i decizi priorit??ile. Ceea ce este cu adev?rat important, chiar acum? Ce este într-adev?r important chiar acum? Pune asta în capul listei pentru ziua de azi. F?-o acum. F?-o acum.

What is important in your life is what you decide is important -- and this decision will indelibly create who you are

See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It's more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness.

What were you tring to do, soldier? I was trying to eat, sir! And what happened? I got caught thinking about some crap, sir! What kind of crap? How I want to live less than my parent's dog.

I shrug. I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted from most important friend to friend, and he's going to have to earn that, even. And you know what else? I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

At $7.5 million, this represents ten minutes of military spending, out of their $400§ billion annual budget.

But I couldn't commit to the time. I needed to resuscitate my career.

A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex.

Po prostu niektórzy ju? tacy sÄ…... tak bardzo martwiÄ… siÄ™ tym, co ich czeka w zaÅ›wiatach, ?e nie majÄ… czasu nauczy? siÄ™ ?y? na tym Å›wiecie

She had known for some time that his wife and family were very real to him, more real by far than the half-life in a far corner of the world that had been forced upon him since the war.

Giving the world's poor mobile telephony is proving easier than providing them with clean water

los hombres olvidan más pronto la muerte de su padre que la pérdida de su patrimonio.

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.

Life was about spending time together , about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as the sun go down. It wasn't glamorous, but it was, in many ways, the best that life has to offer. Wasn't that how the old saying went? Who, on their deathbed, ever said they wished they had worked harder? Or spent less time enjoying a quiet afternoon? Or spent less time with their family?

Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want?

In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were

Not everything, he said. Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This - he said motioning - is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.

For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.

if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?" Megan.

Each game should be better than the last. But that pressure starts to mount, and I fear that I've been neglecting other things in my life for the sake of trying to keep up with those mounting expectations.

I've got three kids, and those are mouths to feed.