We can easily manage, if we will only take each day, the burden appointed for it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow to the weight before we are required to bear it. ~John Newton
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. ~Joseph Smith
We can’t choose happiness either for ourselves or for another; we can’t tell where that will lie. We can only choose whether we will indulge ourselves in the present moment, or whether we will renounce that, for the sake of obeying the Divine Voice within us, —for the sake of being true to all the motives that sanctify our lives. ~George Elliot
From the Richard Evans Quote Book, Publishers Press, Salt Lake City, Utah 1971 p.148-149
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