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#1

“What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

tags: marriage

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#2

“I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the one whom, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him: 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' That is love's ultimate expression.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

tags: marriage

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#3

“There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: inspirational

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#4

“Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.”
― Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare

tags: marriage, patience

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#5

“Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves. ”
― Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare

tags: marriage, selfishness, selflessness

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#6

“Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met. ”
― Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare

tags: marriage, sacrifice, selfishness, selflessness

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#7

“Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: writing

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#8

“Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: adversity, life, opportunity, trials

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#9

“Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: communication, cooperativeness

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#10

“Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody. ”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: leadership, self, teenagers, youth

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#11

“To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: adversity, life, trials, triumphs

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#12

“There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances. ”
― Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare

tags: agape, love, marriage, unconditional-love

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#13

“That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend. ”
― Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare

tags: cooperation, love, marriage, willingness

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#14

“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: thinking, work

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#15

“The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable. ”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: challenges, life, overcoming, problems

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#16

“Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.”
― Thomas S. Monson

tags: conquering, science, spiritual

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#17

“Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather, 'How many people did you help?”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: service

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#18

“When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: kindness, respect, taken-from-goethe

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#19

“May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: called-of-god, god, mother, sacred-callings, sacred-responsibilities

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#20

“In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: opportunities, service, time

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#21

“Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: self, self-respect, temple, thinking

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#22

“Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: challenges, new, old

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#23

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

1455 likes

#24

“Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

tags: closeness, family, love

505 likes

#25

“When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

tags: magic

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#26

“Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: heart, reason

161 likes

#27

“Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: fault, pain

26 likes

#28

“It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: silence

69 likes

#29

“Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: hope

148 likes

#30

“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: knowledge

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