"We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more."

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Source : "The Atonement: All for All". Bruce C. Hafen’s speech at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April, 2004.

Bruce C. Hafen

#Want Quotes #Eternal Life Quotes

“Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility--both credit and blame--for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children.”
“Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.”
“I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.”

Source : "Marginalia and Other Crimes". Essay by Tara Bray Smith in a book "Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Time" by Kevin Smokler, www.sfgate.com. 2009.
“We, as pop stars, are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use a bit of my art to put them over. I think music is one of the most powerful media forces in the world today.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.”

Source : Source: articles.latimes.com
“I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'”
“I know now that before I take a picture I have to be sure about how I feel about the subjects. What I don't know is if I should explain to them what I'm doing while I'm photographing them.”
“It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.”

Source : E. T. A. Hoffmann (2000). “The Golden Pot and Other Tales”, p.187, Oxford University Press, USA

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