A man with experience is never at the mercy of a man with an opinion.
Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!
Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone’s shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.
The Lord didn’t make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.
If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.
Say no to parking lots!
The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you’re young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.
The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.
We don’t LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are.
Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.
Go and do, don’t sit and stew.
Oh, seriously – how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!
While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet.”4.
What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!
Righteousness brings happiness. Wickedness never does. If there were no God, no plan, no law, and no divine order, there would be no reason wickedness would not bring happiness. But it never does. The history of civilization is a testament that hedonism, perversion, brutality, corruption, and wickedness sow seeds of misery, sorrow, and destruction. It is not a quirk of evolution. It is evidence of a divinely appointed plan.12.
Making weak things strong is the Savior’s specialty, and the way we receive such individual help is through humility and a willingness to come unto Christ.
Aside from the giddy high school feelings, real love makes you: Feel a desire to achieve Feel inspired to do your best Want to make the most of yourself Think your noblest thoughts Aspire to your finest deeds Wish you were better than you are.
I think some of the most attractive traits a person can have are a happy disposition, a good dose of appropriate self-confidence, and a sense of purpose.
It’s important to marry someone you love, but it’s also important to marry someone you like. In other words, you like being together, you like to do the same things, you like each other. You’re friends! Romance may have ups and downs, but friendship endures.
Someone with whom you can spend the whole day and never feel bored or lonely. Someone who is the first person you want to tell when something exciting happens to you. Someone you really like.