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  • #1
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #2
    Criss Jami
    “Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.”
    Criss Jami

  • #3
    Zeno of Citium
    “We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
    Zeno of Citium, as quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

  • #4
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #5
    Criss Jami
    “It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #7
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #8
    Joseph Smith Jr.
    “Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.”
    Joseph Smith

  • #9
    Aristotle
    “...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....”
    Aristotle

  • #10
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.”
    Ludwig van Beethoven

  • #11
    Brandon Sanderson
    “... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

  • #12
    Munia Khan
    “Never try to lock the virtue’s door with the key of vice
    It may lock forever; never to be opened again”
    Munia Khan

  • #13
    Benvenuto Cellini
    “Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.”
    Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

  • #14
    John Dickson
    “There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.”
    John Dickson, Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership

  • #15
    Ogwo David Emenike
    “Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.”
    Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy

  • #16
    George Sand
    “No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.”
    George Sand, La Petite Fadette

  • #17
    Travis Berketa
    “Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.”
    Travis Berketa, Dark Heart: Angels in the City

  • #18
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”
    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • #19
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Try a little harder to be a little better.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • #20
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year

  • #21
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • #22
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • #23
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • #24
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice”
    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • #25
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • #26
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    tags: work

  • #27
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • #28
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • #29
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “God is the designer of the family.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • #30
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Love is meant to be an adventure!!”
    Gordon B. Hinckley



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