Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.
Interpretation
Life can feel overwhelming when viewed in large measures, but it becomes manageable when approached step by step.
This quote highlights the importance of breaking down life's challenges into smaller, more manageable parts. By addressing issues inch by inch, they become less daunting, and our decisions play a critical role in shaping our future, reminding us that our choices ultimately determine the trajectory of our lives.
In practice
During a motivational speech to students about managing stress and anxiety in their lives.
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 function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.
Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.
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