Here is one of my favorite movie quotes:
“Save your thoroughness for prayer. And the praying that counts is the praying that is sincere. God does not want you for a fair weather friend.”
Name that movie and who said it.
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“I discovered it’s not what the world holds for you….it’s what you bring to it.”
Name the EXACT movie and who said it….OH, and the scene it’s in!!!!!
Name the movie from which this quote derives……
“The great thing is to have lots of love about. I don’t see… at least I don’t see here, though I did at home, that it matters who loves as long as somebody does. I was a stingy beast at home, and used to measure and count. I had a queer obsession about justice. As though justice mattered. As though justice can really be distinguished from vengeance. It’s only love that’s any good. At home I wouldn’t love (my husband) unless he loved me back, exactly as much, absolute fairness. Did you ever. And as he didn’t, neither did I. Oh the emptiness of it all!”
Where can you find this famous quote?
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
12 days ago, Father sent out an email to find out who said the following (although the direct quote was a tiny bit different then what Father had written)…
“God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability; and, if we then prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.”
It was Neal A Maxwell from the July, 1975 Ensign…..I know, I am amazing!!!!
While on my mission, I picked up a book by James Allen called, “As a Man Thinketh” and treasured the wisdom in its pages. After Elder Holland’s conference talk last Saturday about faith coming from thoughts and words, I revisited the book. Throughout life it seems we hear talks and read poignant thoughts at times when we need them the most.
Lately, with stressful and unpredictable times at work, I’ve had to cultivate a positive attitude beyond anything in recent memory. This has taught me two things: First, that I have been lazy in cultivating positive thoughts and speech. Second, that what you put out comes back, or, in terms we all know, you reap what you sow.
I want to share some clips from the book, but I’d encourage you all to read it.
Also, in terms of Elder Holland’s talk, let me share this quick story: Emma was sick two weeks ago and she asked me for a blessing. I wasn’t sure how to bless her, because I knew she’d be okay eventually and didn’t feel the pressing need to “raise her from the dead” so to speak. I thought, “I guess just giving the blessing will comfort her enough and she’ll know I care about her.” However, as I was sealing the anointing, I was impressed ever so slightly to say the following: “Emma, you will sleep through the night without interruption and I promise your fever will be gone by morning.” Emma slept through the night and her fever was gone the next day. Perhaps giving the blessing was for her and me.
“Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.”
“Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.”
“Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought is some direction.”
“Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.”
The equation,for me, works like this:
Positive/Good Thoughts + Positive Speech = Faith = Success/Miracles.
I found these on the internet and thought it might bring back some fond memories and laughs! I read through them and was laughing so hard I had tears streaming down my face…..
*Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy’s arm behind his back. Now who’s asking the questions?
*If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let ‘em go, because man, they’re gone.
*Instead of having answers on a math test, they should just call them “impressions”, and if you got a different impression, so what? Can’t we all be brothers?
*Children need encouragement, so if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.
*Laurie got offended that I used the word “puke”, but to me, that’s what her dinner tasted like.
*If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy, and people will try to catch you, because hey, free dummy.
*It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
*One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. “Oh, no,” I said. “Disneyland burned down.” He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.
*A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. “Hear that?” you say. “That’s dynamite, baby.”
*Too bad you can’t buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.
*I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.
*Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
*Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: “Mankind”. Basically, it’s made up of two separate words - “mank” and “ind”. What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s why so is mankind.
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success before they gave up.”
- Thomas A. Edison
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
- Elbert Hubbard, American philosopher and writer.
“True friends stab you in the front.”
- Oscar Wilde, novelist and playwright.
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