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.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.
Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In _x000D_ God's Eyes.
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
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