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“I’ve gotta be around theater people more.”

“Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”

“Does anyone ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?"

"No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.”

“It goes so fast. We don’t have time to look at one another.”

“People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.”

“We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it.”

“The important thing is to be happy.”

“This is the way we were. In our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.”

“Three years have gone by. Yes, the sun’s come up over a thousand times... Some babies that weren’t even born before have begun talking regular sentences already; and a number of people who thought they were right young and spry have noticed that they can’t bound up a flight of stairs like they used to without their heart fluttering a little. All that can happen in a thousand days.”

“Too silly to be scared”

The whole post-love-confession, pre-show-ending situation is a titch too long and is making me start to dislike Dylan lol.

“I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God.”

“Enduring to the end is actively and intentionally repeating the steps in the doctrine of Christ.”

“If being a member of this Church becomes too easy, testimonies will become shallow, and the roots of testimony will not go down into the soil of faith as they did with our pioneer forefathers.”

Not accepting the “I’m not sure if Salt Lake has any skyscrapers” slander. SLC has multiple 300+ feet buildings. The more you know!

“He felt so real, so possible.”

An MC that vapes or smokes is automatically 10% more unlikable

“Do all this without grumbling or disputing.” Philippians 2:14

“There are times when we may need to leave the dishes in the sink and go for a walk or hang out with our friends or play with our kids or take a nap.”

“Yet our patience does not make us passive about the brokenness of the world.”

“I always felt like I was waiting for the gift. But I’ve come to see that waiting is the gift. In waiting, God has met [you] and sown in [you] things that only grow with time—with changing seasons and bated breath.”

“God delights in the perfect acoustics of ocean waves, swoons over the subtle intensity of dark chocolate, and glories in robins’ eggs and peacock calls. God has a childlike wonder. Children never tire of beauty and pleasure. They embrace enjoyment with abandon. They don’t feel guilty about taking time to search for feathers, invent a game, or enjoy a treat.“

“We need to learn the slow habits of loving God and those around us. Like liturgy, the work of cleaning draws much of its meaning and value from repetition, from the fact that it is never completed, but only set aside. Both liturgy and “domestic” work also have an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith in the present that fosters hope and makes life seem possible in the day-to-day.”

“Examining my daily liturgy as a liturgy—as something that both revealed and shaped what I love and worship—allowed me to realize that my daily practices were malforming me, making me less alive, less human, less able to give and receive love throughout my day. Changing this ritual allowed me to form a new repetitive and contemplative habit that pointed me toward a different way of being-in-the-world.”

“God is forming us into a new people. And the place of that formation is in the small moments of today.”

2 Nephi 13:10 “Say unto the righteous that it is well with them; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.”

“Eucatastrophe, in Tolkien’s words, is “the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous ‘turn.’ ” In mine, it’s the moment in a story where, when it seems like all is lost, that things are going to be awful forever, that the only possible endings are full of misery and despair, something good happens.” Everything works together for your good! Adore this book for using Anne of Green Gables to illustrate this.

This book taught me that “I know I shall probably never see him again, but I cannot bear to think that he is alive in the world and thinking ill of me.” is from the 1995 BBC Pride & Prejudice and ISN’T IN THE BOOK AT ALL?? Gun to my head I would’ve said that line was in the book even having read it multiple times. WHAT??

2 Nephi 10:23 “Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that you are free to act for yourselves–to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life.”

2 Nephi 10:17 “For I will fulfill my promises which I have made unto the children of men, that I will do unto them while they are in the flesh”