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“Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“Love people, not things; use things, not people. ”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“We learn to do by doing.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?”
― Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness

“Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people will do well to reevaluate, to renew their courting, to express their affection, to acknowledge kindness, and to increase their consideration so their marriage again can become beautiful, sweet, and growing. While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so must we!”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“Sin is the result of deep and unmet needs.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.”
― Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle

“Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“Change comes by substituting good habits for less desirable ones. You mold your character and future by good thoughts and acts.”
― Spencer W. Kimball