Quotes About Priorities

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

She said that the issues were no longer so important to her and it was life itself that counted most of all.

But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.

No one ever told you that in moment of crisis, family was allowed to trump friendship.

Because as you get older, life sort of eats away at you like battery acid, and all the things you once loved are suddenly harder to find. And when you do find them, you don't have time to enjoy them anymore, you know?

Having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children, you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations.

Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What's really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

a Dios le importa menos lo que comes que cómo tratas a tus seres queridos

Life - such as it is - always seems to get in the way

After all, you can't hang out at the park with your kid and shop for coordinating head scarves and flip-flops (or whatever else Bethany does to fill the endless expanse of nonworking days) without a college education. Oh, that's right. You totally can.

It's how my ma raised me, after all, to live in JOY: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.

A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!

The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!

Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my life.

Some people clean the fridge to avoid studying. I go to Brisbane.

Klju? za sre?u nije u onim stvarima za koje si prije mislio da su bitne, nego u pronalasku osobe koja ti "pristaje".

I'm saying it because there comes a time when you need to decide if what you want from life is more important than the trappings you'd forfeit for that freedom.

Some things are more important than safety.