Quotes About Priorities

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

love doesn't put food on the table. It doesn't keep a family safe.

But is life a success when it doesn't include time for after-school talks, and curling up to read books on winter nights, and weaving daisy chains in the summer? Is it a success when you have all the big things but none of the small ones? Is it as it should be when everybody grows up and moves to opposite coasts and doesn't care if they ever see each other?

Our schedules are always filled with other things.

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that.

Who chooses the schedules we keep? We do, I guess.

We used to sit up on the roof with the couple from across the hall and play records and dance?' I sighed, wondering how we had come so far up in income and so far down in the things that really mattered.

some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this or some of that or all of this and none of that. We make trade-offs we think are best at the time.

don't want everything that's going on to be a…distraction for you two. I don't want you to

that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.

We all make trade-offs to get what we want. But no matter what you stand to gain, when the thing you're asked to trade is yourself, the price is too high." What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy.

But pleasing to the eye isn't the same as pleasing to God.

Greg made us see, after an enormous amount of effort, that if a (sane) guy really likes you, there ain't nothing that's going to get in his way. And if he's not sane, why would you want him?

had often occurred to Chen how shattering it must be for someone who had devoted their whole life to material possessions to suddenly find themselves in a world where status depended on entirely more intangible matters. He

Funny how you can get used to not having things you thought you couldn't live without.

We live and work in a world that carries preoccupations about money, but what does the soul care about such things?

Lumea nu merit? sacrificiul de a tr?i pentru ea, cu atât mai pu?in de a muri.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

It's not as if I don't like men, I just have more respect for my washing machine.

Beauty is only skin deep, but who gives a shit what's under their skin anyway?

I don't care what Cosmo says about exercise improving sex. Some things aren't worth the cost.