Heather Doerksen Quotes
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.
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Fantasy and reality often overlap.
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Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?
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I think it's an injustice that most consumers going to the supermarket have so few options for fruit and vegetables to feed their families. There might be the appearance of abundance, but it's an illusion.
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The act of driving your body, very occasionally, close to its limit of endurance is for some reason one of life’s major satisfactions. And relaxing afterwards is one of life’s most luxurious rewards.
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.
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As you climb the mountains of life, stay on the path of virtue. There will be others to help you- your parents, family members, bishops, advisers, and righteous friends of all ages. And if you are weary or take a wrong turn, change your direction and get back on the path of virtue. Always remember that the Savior is there for you. He will enable you to repent, strengthen you, lighten your burdens, dry your tears, comfort you, and continue to help you stay on the path.
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Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.
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One blade couldn’t win a battle, but as long as it was mine, it could be used to protect me and those I loved.
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I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
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Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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It's very hard to understand when you're not out there but voting somebody off on Survivor almost feels like you're killing them.
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Jane Campion is a tough director.
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Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
