April 16, 2007
A Prayer For Owen Meany
"If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it." --Owen Meany
I've found the way, now I'm trying to find the courage. Any advice anyone?
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March 06, 2007
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot
S'io credessi che mia risposta fosse
a persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
questa fiamma staria senza pi scosse.
Ma per ci che giammai di questo fondo
non torn vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question.
Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
Let us go and make our visit.
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March 01, 2007
A Little Grass for You
Yet, O my soul supreme!
Know’st thou the joys of pensive thought?
Joys of the free and lonesome heart—the tender, gloomy heart?
Joy of the solitary walk—the spirit bowed yet proud—the suffering and the struggle?
The agonistic throes, the extasies—joys of the solemn musings, day or night?
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O, while I live, to be the ruler of life—not a slave,
To meet life as a powerful conqueror,
No fumes—no ennui—no more complaints, or scornful criticisms.
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O me repellent and ugly!
To these proud laws of the air, the water, and the ground, proving my interior Soul impregnable,
And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.
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February 24, 2007
Life is a hypocrite...
...if I can't live how it moves me.
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January 28, 2007
Sunday Afternoon
“To mothers, daughters, and women everywhere, let me stress the fact that because of your great potential and influence for good in the lives of all of us, Satan is determined to destroy you. You cannot compromise with him. You must have the courage, the strength, the desire, and the determination to live as the Lord would have you live—good clean lives. Girls, keep yourselves virtuous and worthy of a fine young man who has likewise kept himself clean, so that together you can go to the House of the Lord to be sealed in the holy bonds of matrimony for time and all eternity, and prepare a home where God will be pleased to send his spirit children” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1973, p. 126; or Ensign, Jan. 1974, p. 8).
I was told this quote this morning, then I lived through an experience of it this afternoon.
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December 29, 2006
Think of the long view...
"Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now."
—Elder Richard G. Scott
Ensign, May 1997, 54
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December 14, 2006
Faith
"Faith fuels hope. Our perspective changes; our vision becomes clearer. We begin to look for the best, not the worst, in life and in others. We gain a deeper sense of life's purpose and meaning. Despair gives way to joy.
"Faith such as this is a heavenly gift, but it can be sought and cultivated. As our Bible Dictionary suggests, often 'faith is kindled by hearing the testimony of those who have faith.' Faith is then nurtured as we allow ourselves to believe. Like all other virtues, faith is strengthened as we practice it, as we live and act as if our faith were already deep. Faith is the product of righteous desire, belief, and obedience."
David S. Baxter, "Faith, Service, Constancy," Ensign, Nov. 2006, 13-14
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December 08, 2006
Convenience...
"It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is always the right thing to do. Always."
--Elder M. Russell Ballard
Ensign, Nov. 1997
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