Quotes about Priorities

Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.

Some things that religious people make a big deal of are rather pointless. Avoid the insanity.

We are always in the endless process of figuring out our ikigai. Your ikigai is a web of work and family and play and how you spend your time, what you give your energies to, what you say "yes" to, what you say "no" to, what new challenges you take on, things that come your way that you never wanted or planned for or know what to do with— your ikigai is a work in progress because you are a work in progress.

If I must choose which I would elevate— The people or the already lofty mountains, I'd elevate the already lofty mountains.

Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams mean everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.

Doss dear, said Cousin Georgiana mournfully, some day you will discover that blood is thicker than water. Of course it is. But who wants water to be thick? parried Valancy. We want water to be thin--sparkling--crystal-clear.

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen