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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Who was this Man of sorrows, acquainted with grief? Who is the King of glory, this Lord of hosts? He is our…
— Thomas S. Monson
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LIFE IS A DIVINE GIFT. The divine is not something outside of us; it is right in our very center; it is…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you…
— Rex Harrison
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
— Gustav Mahler
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The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one…
— Carl Jung
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You are here to deliver a divine gift to the world.
— Debbie Ford
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Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.
— Eugen Sandow
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The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
— Socrates
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