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Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

David O. McKay

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David O. McKay
Age: 96 †
Born: 1873
Born: September 8
Died: 1970
Died: January 18
Author
Prophet
Teacher
Huntsville
Utah
David Oman McKay
Irresistible
Possessed
Infinite
Relationship
Everyone
Desire

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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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What you think about when you don't think, shows who you really are.
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Slander is poison to the soul.
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No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.
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True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.
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That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.
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Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.
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[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.
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The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
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The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar it begins during the period of youth and courtship.
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There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.
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Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.
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True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.
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