Quotes About Priorities

At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.

Duty is inevitable, but we need not saddle ourselves with extra responsibilities. Keep life simple. Give up as much as possible.

I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was fifteen. The answer always used to be yes. But in time, all those boys had faded away, and my parents were still there. I was now less and less willing to kill them for anyone; in fact, I worried for their health. In this case, however, I had to say yes. Yes, I would.

But as the sun rose I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway. What did it really matter if I spent it like this...as opposed to some other way? ...If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

A meal that can be packed and frozen and thawed is nothing you should desire--much less teach your kids to want.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

Prosperity and comfort are what people seek, but the costs to character are often terrifying

Between Friends and Siblings, I choose Sibling and I reject Friends. quote in UN assemble 1974

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.

Today, we ask not what we can do for our country but what our country, employer, fast-food purveyor, or favorite airline can do for us.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

Books and marriage go ill together.

One must eat to live and not live to eat.

Before the war cut her life so sharply in two, she had cherished her possessions jealously. ... Now that she had discovered the important truth that her flesh was as brittle as theirs and far more precious, the safety of china cupids had become irrelevant.

his mother and I aren't too happy about Richard. Frankly, he's getting a bit, er, well … first reading poetry when he ought to be getting his pony ready for the Bath and County next Thursday, then lying to his mother – took his beating in a very, well, cowardly way, then, am I right? howling on your, in your, in the schoolroom,' the Captain finished desperately.

I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

Putting his head down on the dog's neck, he vowed to himself fervently that he would always have some money on hand, no matter what became of him, so that he would be able to protect all that was truly valuable from the practical people in the world.

When people die, you always hear the expression, "You can't take it with you.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much mon- ey will it bring in?     —Alexis de Tocqueville, letter to Ernest de Chabrol, June 9, 1831                                         1

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

A man who does not work should not eat is the most underrated bible verse