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.
If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
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