L. M. Boyd Quotes

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.

There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.

The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

I have always idolized eccentric people.

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

Netflix is in every country except China and North Korea. Enough people have seen the show. I mean, I'm in Patagonia and people recognize the show [ Narcos].

I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that.

...thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity.

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

I only wanted to help my people.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.

As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.

The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do.

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

Our competition in life is solely with our old self.

Sure to prove indispensable for the study of Black Power.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.