"Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence.…" — David O. McKay
"Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is."
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120 Quotes by David O. McKay
David O. McKay has 120 quotes on this site.
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One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite…
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Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of…
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Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing.…
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Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can…
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True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights,…
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True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain…
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What you think about when you don't think, shows who you really are.
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Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what…
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It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the…
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The first condition of happiness is a clear conscience.
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No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
— Aristotle
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
— Aristotle
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
— David Attenborough
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
— David Bailey
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him.…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
— Henry Adams
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
— Charles Baudelaire
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