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Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.Thomas S. Monson
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To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.Thomas S. Monson
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May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.Thomas S. Monson
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In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.Thomas S. Monson
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Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody.Thomas S. Monson
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Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.Thomas S. Monson
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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?Thomas S. Monson
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When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.Thomas S. Monson
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Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?Thomas S. Monson
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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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Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold, ' but rather, 'How many people did you help?Thomas S. Monson
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The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.Thomas S. Monson
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Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.Thomas S. Monson