Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

First things first, second things never.

He caught me to him, his arms banded tight around me. His face pressed into my throat. "Where do we go from here?" I held him. "Wherever this takes us. Together.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life; mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight.

I've grown tired of traveling alone, won't you ride with me?

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.

It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.

Although the last, not least.

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

Let's hope the first comes first.

You have to know where you were going in order to get there.

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

Every heart desires a mate.

Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.

I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.

You don't really want to be always thinking about the future, always thinking about where you're heading for. You've got to think about how you're getting there.

Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.

Richard thought a moment. "I don't know, but we have to get across the pass. We're too tired to have to spend tonight fighting shadows again. We must get to the Midlands before dark. And this time, I promise I won't let go of your hand." Kahlan smiled and squeezed his hand. I won't let go of yours either.

I'm not not looking for a girlfriend - but I'm not particularly looking for a girlfriend, either. I'm not knocking having a relationship; at the end of the day, you want to share with someone. But I just look at it as, I have the rest of my life to do that. I'm not in any rush.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.