Life Quotes... Priorities

“I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds around my neck.”
                                                Emma Goldman

“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”
                                                General George S. Patton, Jr.

“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”
                                                Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“To be able to throw oneself away for the sake of the moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.”
                                                Herman Hesse

“Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matter.  Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level.  There's no time for pettiness.”
                                                Margaretta (Happy) Rockefeller

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
                                                Robert Frost

“It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.  The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.”
                                                Robert Maynard Hutchins

“All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
                                                Samuel Butler

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