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Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.
Thomas S. Monson
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Thomas S. Monson
Age: 90 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 21
Died: 2018
Died: January 2
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All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or small, the neighborhood fashionable or downtrodden. Rather, we delight in the experiences we shared as a family. The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there.
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Have we been guilty of declaring, 'I've been thinking about making some course corrections in my life. I plan to take the first step-tomorrow'? With such thinking, tomorrow is forever. Such tomorrows rarely come unless we do something about them today.
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Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have.
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Who the Lord calls, the Lord will qualify.
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Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.
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Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.
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A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out.
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The ability to communicate is not something we are born with. We have to learn it and earn it.
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Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage... Tears inevitably follow transgression. Men, take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.
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May we give as the Savior gave. To give of oneself is a holy gift. We give as a remembrance of all the Savior has given.
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Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?
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Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy another person's confidence through careless words. or actions.
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I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.
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Anger does not solve anything it builds nothing.
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We continue to build temples. We desire that as many members as possible have an opportunity to attend the temple without having to travel inordinate distances.
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The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God
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In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.
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