It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.
Dieter F. UchtdorfRead
The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.
Interpretation
Focusing on holiness and happiness can help us avoid future regrets.
This quote emphasizes the importance of dedicating ourselves to a life of holiness and happiness. By prioritizing these virtues, we not only enrich our own lives but also pave the way for a future without regrets, indicating that when we strive for goodness and joy, we can look back with satisfaction instead of remorse.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.
Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find.
There are few things that have filled me with such breathless awe as flying in the black of night across oceans and continents and looking out my cockpit window upon the infinite glory of millions of stars.
No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.
Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us, but it is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these blessings from reaching us.
We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?
The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.
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