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What you think about when you don't think, shows who you really are.

David O. McKay

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David O. McKay
Age: 96 †
Born: 1873
Born: September 8
Died: 1970
Died: January 18
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Huntsville
Utah
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There is no success which can compensate for the failure of the family.
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The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.
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Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.
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Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.
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Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
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I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.
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He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.
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All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
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… The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.
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The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early
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Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
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Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.
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President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy
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As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good and the beautiful in the world, or we may choose the trashy, the vulgar, the obscene, which will make us feel as though we've been 'wallowing in the mire.
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I never think of death: I am too busy thinking of life.
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Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.
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One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.
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No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.
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I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.
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That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.
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