It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.
Interpretation
Small choices can have a profound impact on our lives and history.
This quote emphasizes the significance of seemingly minor decisions in shaping our futures and the course of history. Just as a gate's movement hinges on small mechanisms, our life's trajectory is influenced by the choices we make, highlighting the importance of being mindful in our decision-making.
In practice
In a motivational speech about career paths.
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.
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry And I know who I am I'll be a voice coming from nowhere, inside-- be glad for me.
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
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