This is my philosophy on all life, not just when it comes to love. All the best things are terrifying, but that's why they're the best things. Nothing worth having comes easy. You have to be afraid to want it, afraid to lose it, afraid to try. If you feel that, then you know you're on to a winner.
Interpretation
Life's best experiences often come with fear and challenges, but they are worthwhile.
In this quote, Thomas S. Monson emphasizes that the most rewarding aspects of life, including love, are often accompanied by fear and uncertainty. It suggests that if something is truly valuable, it requires courage to pursue and commitment to maintain, emphasizing that the struggle adds to its worth.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming fears and seizing opportunities.
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.
I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.
South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.
Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
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