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My Personal Antidepressant(continued)(page 14) |
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Once when President Brigham Young was asked why we are sometimes left alone and often sad, his response was that man has to learn to �act as an independent being . . . to see what he will do . . . and try his independency�to be righteous in the dark.
� ~ Told by President James E . Faust, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, Conference Oct 2005. (Original source is Brigham Young�s Office Journal, Jan. 28, 1857, Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) |
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Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. ~ Samuel Johnson |
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength. ~ Anonymous |
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And the Spirit giveth light to every man that cometh into the world; and the Spirit enlighteneth every man through the world, that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit. And every one that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit cometh unto God, even the Father. ~ Doctrine and Covenants 84:46-47 |
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| Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love; every brave suffering for the right; every surrender of self to something higher than self; every loyalty to an ideal; every unselfish devotion to principle; every helpfulness to humanity; every act of self-control; every fine courage of the soul, undefeated by pretense or policy, but by being, doing, and living of good for the very good�s sake�that is spirituality. ~ David O. McKay, Conference Report, Oct. 1963, 89�90 | ||||||||
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The choice is given, whether we live in the physical world as animals, or whether we use what earth offers us as a means of living in the spiritual world that will lead us back into the presence of God. This means specifically:
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Whether a man remains satisfied within what we designate the animal world, satisfied with what the animal world will give him, yielding without effort to the whim of his appetites and passions and slipping farther and farther into the realm of indulgence, or whether, through self-mastery, he rises toward intellectual, moral, and spiritual enjoyments depends upon the kind of choice he makes every day, nay, every hour of his life. ~ David O. McKay, Conference Report, Apr. 1949, 13. |
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Reverence is profound respect mingled with love. ~ David O. McKay, Conference Report, Oct. 1956, 6�7 |
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Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well. ~ Danish proverb |
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So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America. ~ Thomas Wolfe |
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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline. ~ W. L. Shirer |
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. ~ John Donne, "The Anagram" |
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Its' In Your Face You don't have to tell how you live each day, You don't have to say if you work or play, A tried, true barometer serves in the place; however you live, it will show in your face. The false, the deceit you bear in your heart Will not stay inside, where it first got a start. For sinew and blood are a thin veil of lace; what you wear in your heart you wear in your face. If your life is unselfish, if for others you live, for not what you get, but for how much you can give; if you live close to God, in His infinite grace, you don't have to tell it, it shows in your face. |
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| ... when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. ~ Job 23:10 | ||||||||
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Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. ~Isaiah 26:3 |
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| We can think a thought to death, but only when we move upon the thought do we bless human lives. ~ President Thomas S. Monson, "Heavenly Homes, Forever Families", Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting: Supporting the Family, February 2006 | ||||||||
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. ~ W. C. Fields |
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost |
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You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~ Erma Bombeck |
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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. ~ Terry Pratchett |
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices -- just recognize them. ~ Edward R. Murrow |
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For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ~Eccl. 1: 18 |
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ~ S�ren Kierkegaard |
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| The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. ~ Rita Mae Brown | ||||||||
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture. ~ Jacquelyn Mitchard |
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The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it, and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more. ~ George MacDonald |
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The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. ~ Franklin P. Jones |
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ Elizabeth Stone |
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If you can't convince them, confuse them. ~ Harry S. Truman |
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The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on. ~ Tex Cobb, boxer and actor. |
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It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. ~ Confucius |
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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life ~ Sophia Loren |
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. ~ Mahatma Gandhi |
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ~ Walter Bagehot |
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Most men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and continue as if nothing happened. ~ Winston Churchill |
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