Quotes about Reflection

We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still. The trials of mortality may increase in intensity, yet for us, darkness need not increase if we focus our eyes more singly on the light that streams down on us as we follow the Master. He will lead us and help us along the path that leads upward to the home for which we yearn.

The page on which I wrote is the second page in section 19 of the Doctrine and Covenants, in the old edition of the triple combination. On the bottom of the page, in capital letters, is written the word REPENTANCE. And then an arrow leads to a notation that reads: "Greek word. To have a new mind.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his souls estate.

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about?

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.