L. M. Boyd Quotes

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

I ain't affraid to let it out, i'm not affraid to take that fall, but i found beyond all doubt, you say more by saying nothing at all.

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

Mind over matter. Weak minded people are easily influenced. Strong minded people you can't break their will.

Protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man!.

Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront

I think I feel automatically at home in Italy

Embrace nature's brutal perfection.

Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.

We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.

The real work of an expedition begins when you return.

I just don't want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.

There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.

Adolf Hitler is simply the dark-side of Mother Teresa.

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!

The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs.

After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance: life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.

To go to work every day for two years, that was life changing.

Prayer is your personal key to heaven.

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

I just look for characters that have dimensions. If I don't see it written on the page, then I try to put it in there somehow. You don't want to play the same role twice.

If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it’s because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.

Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.

The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward the light of the everlasting gospel.