Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
Interpretation
Be selective in your friendships, be intentional about your future, and maintain faith in your journey.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being deliberate in choosing who we surround ourselves with, as our friends can significantly influence our lives. Additionally, it encourages us to be purposeful in our planning for the future and to approach life with a strong sense of faith, trusting that our efforts will bear fruit and guide us along our path.
In practice
During a graduation speech, someone might quote this as advice for entering adulthood.
Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.
We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.
Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.
Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There is a simplicity - even a sincerity - when "thank you" is spoken.
No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled coal, or helped in any way to serve others ever forgets or regrets the experience of helping provide for those in need.
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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