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Here’s some more quotes I like that typify our group: Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
–George Bernard Shaw
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Don’t follow in my footsteps. I run into walls-
Oh, and I love this: Nelson Mandella “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Why is it that so many lds members think there is only truth in the church, 4 standard works, and Ensign, AND that only they have the Holy Spirit with them, when I find so many glorious thoughts like this which actually support lds teachings?
Great topic — I would like to get a whole list of “stayLDS” quotes in one place. How about here? “Help others all you can. And if you can’t help them, at least do them no harm.” – Dalia Lama
I can see some application for all of these quotes: “Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.” Mark Twain
“Ships in harbor are safe, but that is not what ships are for.” John Shedd
“Experience is not what happens to a man. It’s what man does with what happens to him.” Aldous Huxley
“Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” Virginia Starr
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
“No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or another, find himself with at least one foot hanging over the brink of failure.” Napolean Hill
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Ghandi
“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” John Kenneth Galbraith
“By examining and understanding the past, we can move into the future unencumbered by it. We become free to express ourselves, rather than endlessly trying to prove ourselves.” Warren Bennis
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” John Cage
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Great idea Cwald. Would love to hear more stay.lds type quotes from everyone. Just found another one:
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
I like this one for people struggling with problems or doubts… Quote:Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you.
-Maori proverb
“Blind acceptance is a sign,/ of stupid fools who stand in line.” – The Sex Pistols (sorry is that too strong?! I can’t quote the rest of the song, too sweary… 😆 )Here is one of my favorite actually that i have been using on my kids during SS as of late. (Sorry Heber) Luke: “Why didn’t you tell me? You told me Vader betrayed and murdered my father.”
Obi-Wan: “Your father… was seduced by the dark side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your father was destroyed. So what I told you was true… from a certain point of view.”
Luke: “A certain point of view?”
Obi-Wan: “Luke, you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to…depend greatly on our point of view.”
I like it, but I have to admit that kind of thinking has been used to bend morality in more sinister directions… SamBee wrote:I like it, but I have to admit that kind of thinking has been used to bend morality in more sinister directions…
Yeah, like church leaders who, say, changed the meaning of the WofW and tithing and temple requirements and…… “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”
Definitely, but I would say that the WoW is a lot less sinister than people being provoked to violence or hatred. I have a cute magnet on my fridge .. Black and white with a lonely dog running down a dirt path .. “All that is gold does not glitter, not all who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien It sums up life well, I think.
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