"What's wrong with taking care of a woman? She takes care of you."
~Meet Joe Black
"Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy."
~Gordon B. Hinckley
"To be contented human beings we need trust and friendship, which tends to develop much better once we realise that all beings have a right to happiness, just as we do. Taking others’ interests into account not only helps them, it also helps us. Warm-heartedness and concern for others are a part of human nature and are at the core of positive human values."
~Dalai Lama
"It did not kill me when you went to space. Monkeys went to space."
~Meet Joe Black
"Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy."
~Gordon B. Hinckley
"To be contented human beings we need trust and friendship, which tends to develop much better once we realise that all beings have a right to happiness, just as we do. Taking others’ interests into account not only helps them, it also helps us. Warm-heartedness and concern for others are a part of human nature and are at the core of positive human values."
~Dalai Lama
"It did not kill me when you went to space. Monkeys went to space."
~Dr. Sheldon Cooper, Ph.D.
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." ~Bill Cosby
"To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift, worthy of him to give and of me to receive. It profanes nobody. In these warm lines the heart will trust itself, as it will not to the tongue, and pour out prophecy of a godlier existence than all the annals of heroism have yet made good."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship, Essays: First Series
"I'm an emotional nomad." -Phillip Blackwood, Her Alibi
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as (heck) don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to line in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. ~Muhammad Ali
"Boo-yah! That's right! Who just rocked your face?!" ~Ghost Story, Jim Butcher
"The same God who speaks to prophets and who changes the course of nations is willing to speak to your heart through His Spirit. He will guide the course of your life and make much more of you than you could ever make of yourself."
(Wolfgang H. Paul, "God's Guiding Hand," New Era, Jul. 2008, 40-43)
Elder Neal A. Maxwell said: “An economic depression would be grim, but it would not change the reality of immortality. The inevitability of the second coming is not affected by the unpredictability of the stock market. … A case of cancer does not cancel the promises of the temple endowment. … All that matters is gloriously intact. The promises are in place. It is up to us to perform.” (“Notwithstanding My Weakness,” Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1981, p. 57.)
Elder Neal A. Maxwell has said, “When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordained to fail or to be wicked. When we have been weighed and found wanting, let us remember that we were measured before and we were found equal to our tasks; and, therefore, let us continue, but with a more determined discipleship. When we feel overwhelmed, let us recall the assurance that God will not overprogram us; he will not press upon us more than we can bear (D&C 50:40).” (“Meeting the Challenges of Today,” in Devotional Speeches of the Year, Provo: Brigham Young University, 1978, p. 156.)
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
"A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.”
~ Robin Williams
Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying 'I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award' The other is 'You want fries with that?' ~Robin William
"If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life." ~Steve Martin
All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work. ~Steve Martin
“That friendship which intelligent beings would accept as sincere must arise from love, and that love grows out of virtue, which is as much a part of religion as light is a part of Jehovah. (History of the Church, 6:73)”
~Joseph Smith, Jr
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. ~Plato
"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."
-Garrison Keillor
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
-Kenji Miyazawa
"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."
-Arthur Golden
"When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful."
-Barbara Bloom
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.”
- August Wilson
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.” -- Paulo Coelho
“Joy and sorrow are inseparable...together they come, and when one sits alone with you...remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.” -- Kahlil Gibran
Time you enjoyed wasting is not a waste of time.
~Thomas S. Monson
The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain.
~Neal A. Maxwell
It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.
~Neal A. Maxwell
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
~Albert Einstein
“There will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
~Sir Winston Churchill
“Our task is to become our best selves. One of God’s greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.”
~Thomas S. Monson
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." - Mark Twain
“If you improve your education, you will intimidate the dumb men that don’t want an educated wife, and your chances of marrying a loser will decrease automatically.” -Lula from London
The better you make yourself, the better you make the person that will be attracted to you, so improve your bridegroom “magnet." -Lula from London
Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.
~Neal A. Maxwell “Things As They Really Are” 1978
You know you’ve made a new friend when you discover you like the same books and movies. ~Ellyn Sanna
Do not be too timid or squeamish....All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Come as you are
As you were
As I want you to be
As a Friend
As a Friend
As an old enemy
Take your time
Hurry up
The choice is yours
Don’t be late”
Come As You Are
~Nirvana
Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater, give her sperm she will make a baby, give her a house she will give you a home, give her groceries she will give you a meal, give her a smile she will give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what she is given. So if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of it...
~from Alyssa Hazard’s FB status
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."
~ John Muir
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
“If God chooses to teach us the things we most need to learn because he loves us, and if he seeks to tame our souls and gentle us in the way we most need to be tamed and most need to be gentled, it follows that he will customize the challenges he gives us and individualize them so that we will be prepared for life in a better world by his refusal to take us out of this world, even though we are not of it. In the eternal ecology of things we must pray, therefore, not that things be taken from us, but that God's will be accomplished through us. What, therefore, may seem now to be mere unconnected pieces of tile will someday, when we look back, take form and pattern, and we will realize that God was making a mosaic. For there is in each of our lives this kind of divine design, this pattern, this purpose that is in the process of becoming, which is continually before the Lord but which for us, looking forward, is sometimes perplexing.” ~Neal A Maxwell “But For A Small Moment” BYU Devotional 1 Sept 1974
In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the stature of true potential.
~Thomas S. Monson
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, WOW What a Ride!"
Submissiveness to God enables us to govern ourselves. . . . Lacking this capacity we are vulnerable, like "a city which is broken down, and without walls". We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.
~Neal A. Maxwell
"A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. ....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance."
--Marvin J. Ashton
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self respect.
~Thomas S. Monson
When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens. ~Neal A. Maxwell
When at length we tire of putting people down, this self inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up. ~Neal A. Maxwell
Choose your love, love your choice.
~Thomas S. Monson
When we rejoice in great music and art, it is but the flexing of instincts learned in the previous life. ~Neal A. Maxwell
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
"There will be a moment when you're eyes meet and everything in the world is simple again." [Michael Edwards]
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
