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My Personal Antidepressant(continued)(page 6) |
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I've learned a lot from dogs. Years ago, I forced a daily spoonful of cod liver oil down the throat of my German Shepherd puppy. He slipped from my grasp one day, spilling the potion. Then he began licking the spoon. He liked the oil, but not my method of giving it to him. I oftem put that over into teaching. What the teacher has, maybe the student wants, if you just give it to him the right wy. ~Emily Ann Smith |
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| A tactic Abraham Lincoln is said to have used for puttinmg down a debating opponent who was spouting platitudes. "If you called sheep's tail a leg, how many legs would a sheep have?", Lincoln would interrupt. "Five," his opponent would usually reply. "Wrong," Lincoln would say. "Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." | ||||||||
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Suspicion of business is a leftist sentiment, suspicion of government is a rightist one, but suspicion of both totally disables. ~Thomas Griffith |
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| Solon when asked if he had given the Athenians the best laws possible, answered, "No, but the best they could receive." | ||||||||
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Developement does not start with goods, it starts with people and their education, organization and discipline. ~Quest 1979 July/Aug |
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...that my life is my own -- that I can share in the care and consolation of wounds without sharing the wounds, without striving to be the master of lives other than my own. ~Stephen R. Donaldson |
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One can think reflectively only when one is willing to endure the suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching. ~John Dewey |
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Be assured, too, that all faithful sisters, who, through no fault of their own, do not have the privilege during their second estate of being sealed to a worthy man, will have that blessing in eternity. On occasions when you ache for that acceptance and affection which belong to family life on earth, please know that our Heavenly Father is aware of your anguish, and that one day he will bless you beyond your capacity to express. Sometimes to be tested and proved requires that we be temporarily deprived -- but righteos women and men will one day receive all -- think of it sisters -- all that our Father has! It is not only worth waiting for; it is worth living for! ~Spencer W. Kimball, Women's Conference, Oct. 1979 |
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[Charles Schwab} ... then the president of U.S. Steel ... told an efficiency expert he didn't have time to listen to him at length but wondered if the man had any quick suggestions for him. "Every morning," the expert said, "make a list of the things you have to do that day. List them in order of importance. Then concentrate on the first task until it's finished, without diverting you attention to anything else. Then go to the second task, completing as much as you comfortably can during the day." Schwab looked at him, shrugged, and asked what he wanted for the suggestion. "Try it for a month," the man said, "and then pay me what you think it's worth to you." Thirty days later, Schwab put a check in the mail for $25,000.00. ~Writer's Digest, Oct. 1979, p. 14 |
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Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on record makes it seem continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place. Besides, persistence of the normal is usually greater than the effect of disturbances, as we know from our own times. After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shut downs, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening -- on a lucky day -- without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena. ~Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror, p. xix |
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Tuchman's law: The fact of being recorded multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable developement by five - to ten fold (or any other figure the reader may care to supply.) ~Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror |
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... perfection is a direction to be pursued in the process of time. ~Neal A. Maxwell |
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In a society in which "anything goes," Its members will learn too late that everything has gone. ~Neal A. Maxwell |
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This ... capacity to anticipate, and thereby prevent, the anquish of our posterity requires the selflessness of a loving parent; it cannot be managed by those who are pleasure seekers. ~Neal A. Maxwell |
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Some unwisely believe that devine aid is merely a convenience and a shortcut. In reality it is a skill of the highest order which has to be developed laboriously and painstakingly. ~Neal A. Maxwell |
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Jesus is the guarantor of our individual accountability. ~Specer W. Kimbal, New Era, April 1980 |
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"There is always a father in Soviet government. A lot of Russians left the "bad father" of communism to seek the "good father" of capitalism. But when they realized that here there is no father -- that they can do whatever they please -- they become angry. They feel orphaned. They don't understand that freedom is something to pay for with initiative and stamina. If you are obedient in the Soviet Union, you are given a piece of bread. If not, you are scolded and jailed. Even this ia a form of attention. ~Russian artist and immigrant |
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New arrivals [in the Church] are not asked to renounce their country or that which is good in their culture. All must, however, let go of the things which injure the soul, and there are some such things in every life and in every culture. ~Neal A. Maxwell, Conference Talk, Oct 1980 |
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The Church is for perfecting the Saints, hence new arrivals are entitled to expect instant community but not instant sainthood -- either in themselves or in others. It takes time and truth working patiently together to produce the latter in all of us. ~Neal A. Maxwell, Conference Talk, Oct 1980 |
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They have been called to the vineyard not just to admire but to perspire -- not to "ooh" and "aah" but to hoe and saw. ~Neal A. Maxwell, Conference Talk, Oct 1980 |
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Let us participate in the rigorous calisthenics of daily improvement, and not just in the classroom rhetoric of eternal progression. ~Neal A. Maxwell, Conference Talk, Oct 1980 |
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As we build a holier Zion, with the voice of melody we will sing those lyrics -- "all is well, all is well" -- but sometimes as a reassuring sob as well as a song, awaiting the promised day when "sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
[Isaiah 35:10]
~Neal A. Maxwell, Conference Talk, Oct 1980 |
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We appreciate the the faithful single sisters who do not yet enjoy a fulness of family life. The Lord loves you, for you are some of the most noble spirits of our Father in Heaven. If you continue faithful and true, no eternal blessing will one day be denied you. ~President Spencer W. Kimball, General Relief Society Meeting, Sept. 27 1980 |
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My dear sisters, stay close to the Church, all of you. Follow its prophets, so that you do not lose your way and so that you can help guide back any of those who may have lost their way. ~President Spencer W. Kimball, General Relief Society Meeting, Sept. 27 1980 |
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Be good neighbors as well, so that even if the love of many in the world waxes cold, your families and your neighbors are not deprived of your ministry and compassionate service. ~President Spencer W. Kimball, General Relief Society Meeting, Sept. 27 1980 |
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Let other women pursue blindly what they selfishly perceive as their interests. But you, my dear sisters, can be a much needed force for love and truth and righteous example on this earth. ~President Spencer W. Kimball, General Relief Society Meeting, Sept. 27 1980 |
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But kind, thoughtful, loving acts are the way Jesus has directed us to express our love -- both our love for him and our love for others. ... If we are thoughtful, warm and caring to those who are sick, those who mourn, those who are fatherless, those we love and those who despitefully use us, then we have charity, for we are moved to act with compassion. ~Barbara B. Smith, General Relief Society Meeting, Sept. 27 1980 |
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As we strive with the single desire to nurture all life, we come to know what charity means. ~Barbara B. Smith, General Relief Society Meeting, Sept. 27 1980 |
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There is no way we can, or should want to, escape our challenges and struggles of mortality. How we struggle with them is our choice. The gospel plan gives us an eternal perspective that should help us have the courage to be about our gleaning [those things from life's circumstances and experiences which will give us growth and faith and peace of mind.]
~Barbara B. Smith, General Relief Society Meeting, Sept. 27 1980 |
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As women in the church we need to prepare to do missionary work, by study, by prayer and by service. Then we will be better able to live by the principles of truth and others seeing our good works are more apt to be accepting. The greatest numbers of baptisms come from among those who know active Latter-day Saints. ~Barbara B. Smith, General Relief Society Meeting, Sept. 27 1980 |
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Regardless of culture or country we all make mistakes in our mothering. But through repentance and the atonement of Jesus Christ and by contiually communicating his love, miracles can hapen, wrongs can be righted. Never give up. Never let your arms hang down. ~Mary F. Foulger, General Relief Society Meeting, Sept. 27 1980 |
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... if you assume that part of another�s responding to your needs lies in your willingness to share your ideas, feelings, and values, then faith becomes a blessing that fortifies you in sharing yourself with others. Sharing and responding are the process of sisterhood. ~Addie Fuhriman, General Relief Society Meeting, Sept. 27 1980 |
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It is overwhelming to me to know that I have a stewardship of replenishing the earth and seeing that all things reach their fruition and know I may have to do it without a companion. But on the strength of hope, you can personally replenish and touch another by responding to the other�s emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual needs rather than assuming that you can only replenish and assist in fruition by giving physical birth. ~Addie Fuhriman, General Relief Society Meeting, Sept. 27 1980 |
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It seems impossible at times to give my heart to someone when there isn�t someone who has made that same commitment to me. Without that reciprocating, human commitment, it becomes easier to give one�s heart to a task, job, or perhaps inanimate object. Nevertheless, the comfort and companionship of hope can allow you to give self and love and will lessen the risk associated with the act of commitment. Concepts embedded within lessons of service, personal relationships, forgiveness, and daily acts of love can help you say, �My heart is yours�—and say it to one or many. ~Addie Fuhriman, General Relief Society Meeting, Sept. 27 1980 |
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