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.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
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