Quotes About Priorities

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

Unfortunately, now that Langston has a boyfriend again, he has forgotten all about me.

Love has mass and volume. Put it into your life; it must displace something. As it has displaced my notion of what was good and important in the world, and substituted this: The knowledge that there is nothing more important than people willing to stand up for the truth of each other. The understanding of what it is to protect another fragile being. The understanding that I, too, will grow old.

most people care more about their appearance than they do about the condition of their souls.

He had heard that from others but hadn't recognized the truth until his own father had gone. Maybe if he hadn't been so involved with Angie he would have seen to his father's business affairs sooner and they wouldn't be in this mess now. What did he know about all these legal matters? Darn little. His father had known he was close to death

There's more to life than work and more work.

But at twenty-eight, Justine had revealed no desire to marry.

But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content" (I Tim. 6:6-8).

Human life must be cheap to the one who can place the dollar above it -John Ruston

Consider your life your personal currency-and invest it wisely.

For the French] time...is an ephemeral currency and should be spent doing the things that make life worth living.

For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?

If you've ever had to run you know that stuff is just stuff. Even rich people can only stand in one room at a time.

He held up a hand to stop her. "Then one day, about six months ago, it hit me—love doesn't trump all for you, safety does. And I knew sooner or later you'd dump me before I'd dump you because—and this is the important part, Rach—I would never dump you." He gave her a beautiful, broken smile. "And that's been my purpose all along." After

Only a child thinks life is about her wants.

If anyone loves the things of the world the love of the father is not in him" (1 John 2:15).

If we are to save a society in deep trouble, many changes are necessary. In terms of rights, two changes are mandatory. First, far more Americans need to ask what is good for society? before asking what is good for my group? Second, we need people to speak up on behalf of the one truly helpless group—children. For this to happen, people must start to think of children as human beings, not as property.

Many people avoid some of the very things that would bring them the deepest happiness such as marriage, children, intellectually challenging pursuits, religious commitment, and volunteer work. They fear the pain that inevitably accompanies such things and therefore devote more time to 'fun' things that bring little happiness, such as watching television.

Sometimes you successful folks can rise up so high reaching for more stuff that you miss knowing God. But you can never stoop low to help somebody and have God miss knowing you

There is no UHaul behind the hearse.

The self or wealth, which is greater? Gain or loss, which is more painful?

The assignment of more importance to wealth can actually lead to gain being more painful.

In life, we see evidence of leaky containers all the time. They are the hard-charging, aggressive personalities who keep pushing themselves for the bigger paycheck at the expense of health, family, relationships and peace of mind. By the time they realize the frantic rush does not work, their container of life is already broken into pieces. By then, it is too late.

well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?