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That takes me back….back to the scab days!
Speaker: GryphSource: during tourney 2, when turreting in a 3/4 gamePosted: 15 Nov 2012 at 7:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I used to refer to the Book of Mormon as a history of an ancient civilization before and after the time of Christ; I would never do that now. This book is a compilation of teachings of prophets about the Messiah, and of the Messiah about Himself.
Speaker: Dalin H. OaksPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil there is one striking at the root.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“We have a saying, in the Pashto language, and the meaning of it is that you are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely, to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Christ is against selfishness and sin—not because He is the giant spoilsport, but the other way around. He is against sin and selfishness because He is against despondency and melancholy and morbidity. He is against the shrinking of our capacity for fulfillment.
Speaker: Truman MadsenSource: "The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength," BYU, 21 November 2000Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 8:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“No matter how we live, there will be pain in this world. But misery is optional.”
Speaker: Marion D. HanksPosted: 09 Sep 2011 at 8:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Put negatively, if you seek your own immediate gratification and ignore, neglect, or, worse, exploit others, you will not find joy. You will find a chimera. And if you persist, you will find misery. You cannot find joy that way any more than you can jump off your own shadow.
(Chimera: A fanciful mental illusion or fabrication.)Speaker: Truman MadsenSource: "The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength," BYU, 21 November 2000Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 8:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You have the right to work, but for the work’s sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either.
Perform every action with your heart fixed on the Supreme Lord. Renounce attachment to the fruits. Be even-tempered in success and failure …
Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. ...
They who work selfishly for results are miserable.Speaker: Bhagavad GitaSource: Puck's QuotesPosted: 19 Jun 2011 at 1:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Help men know what is good in them—never what is bad.
Speaker: S. Michael WilcoxSource: ConfusesPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Blessedness is defined as being higher than happiness. “Happiness comes from without and is dependent on circumstances; blessedness is an inward fountain of joy in the soul itself, which no outward circumstances can seriously affect.”
Speaker: President Harold B. LeeSource: Constitution for a Perfect LifePosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving
Speaker: Lao TzuSource: http://zenhabits.net/no-goal/Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 5:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“My other piece of advice, Copperfield,” said Mr. Micawber, “you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expendicture nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”
Speaker: Charles DickensSource: David CopperfieldPosted: 13 Feb 2010 at 7:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A happy family is but an earlier heaven
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 03 Jan 2010 at 8:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have found that the ends may indeed justify the means, but our experience, what we live, is the means. My family is the means. My life is the means. The end is just death.
Speaker: Rolf GatesSource: Death and BirthPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 10:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Speaker: ANATOLE FRANCEPosted: 24 May 2009 at 12:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I really believe that a man and a woman together, raising a family, is the purest form of happiness we can experience.
Speaker: Will SmithPosted: 28 Apr 2009 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think to thank. These three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, a formula for enduring friendships, and a pattern for personal happiness.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In vain do they talk of happiness, who never suppressed an impulse for a principle.
Speaker: Marvin J. AshtonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Happiness doesn’t come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
...Becoming in obscurity and through obscurity the star around which an angel gravitates – there are few felicities to equal this.
The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself.Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!