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“As the great psychologist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl writes, “A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being…will never be able to throw his life away. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.”
― The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
― The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
“Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed and sanctified nature.”
― The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
― The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible,” he said. He then made his point with the simple example of a taste for strawberries. “There is no abstract and impersonal proof either that strawberries are good or that they are not good. To the man who likes them they are good, to the man who dislikes them they are not. But the man who likes them has a pleasure which the other does not have; to that extent his life is more enjoyable and he is better adapted to the world in which both must live. . . . The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has.”
― The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
― The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
“Our lives are more like a canvas on which we paint, than a script we need to learn – though the illusion of the latter appeals to us by its lower risk.”
― The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
― The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
“But the fact is, as adults with moral awareness, we sense we are responsible for our own choices. And the reason we know we are is because we feel guilt when we do something wrong. We are not speaking here of the oppressive, destructive self-loathing or self-hatred that masquerades as conscience; by guilt we mean the inward call to be truer to our better selves. Legitimate guilt is to the spirit what the sharp protest of a twisted ankle is to the foot: its purpose is to hurt enough to stop you from crippling yourself further. Its function is to prevent more pain, not expand it. This kind of guilt comes from the light and beckons us to follow; its”
― The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
― The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
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