Thomas S. Monson (1920–2018) was an American religious leader who served as the sixteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Monson was considered by many to be a prophet.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
We read to know we are not alone.
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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.