Our Quotes

Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

We feel that we are fighting for our lives and our livelihoods.

Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things.

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

Anyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears.

We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

Our words must count. Hunger will not wait for promises we made.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.

When we direct our thoughts properly i.e. 'Things could be worse but aren't', we can control our emotions... i.e. and feel relieved, grateful, satisfied, hopeful and happy

We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.

Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are?

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

If we can't help our family, who are we going to help?

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?'

Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.

Im 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.

Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.

God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmas time fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Most of us, when asked to gauge the richness of our lives, think immediately of people. Those who have cried with us, laughed with us, and shaped who we are.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.

It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

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.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.

If we can know the beauty God is forming in us, we can bear the pain He allows in our lives.

The simpler we make our lives, the more abundant they become. There is no scarcity except in our souls.