O. J. Brigance famous quotes

Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.
-- O. J. Brigance

#Years #Eight #Done

Extraordinary accomplishments are only achieved when we are able to overcome extraordinary challenges.
-- O. J. Brigance

#Accomplishment #Challenges #Able

With every adversity and trial comes the opportunity to grow stronger and learn from your circumstance.
-- O. J. Brigance

#Adversity #Opportunity #Stronger

Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.
-- O. J. Brigance

#Adversity #Bless

I did not create my life, so I have no right to negate my life,
-- O. J. Brigance

Regardless of what we go through in life, there is always purpose wrapped within the pain.
-- O. J. Brigance

#Pain #Purpose

Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.
-- O. J. Brigance

#Challenges #Triumph #Purpose

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.

The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.