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• Do not allow yourselves to be made to feel inadequate or frustrated because you cannot do everything others seem to be accomplishing. Only you and your Father in Heaven know your needs, strengths, and desires. Around this knowledge your personal course must be charted and your choices made.

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  Father, Choices Made, Heaven

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.

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  Comfort, Times Of Crisis, Use

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

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  Joy, Cooperation, Pleasure

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• If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.

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  Wise, Communication, Emotions Feelings

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• You owe it to yourself to keep fit. No matter how busy or how involved you are, you should have some type of physical program to keep the body in tune.

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  Exercise, Should Have, Tunes

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• Blessed is he or she who avoids being offended.

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  Blessed, Offended

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• ...Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.

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  Attitude, People, Rude

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• There is a great need today for all mankind to heed the plea to cease to find fault one with another. Some of us are so accustomed to wearing faultfinding spectacles that we cannot see past them. We need to open our eyes and ears and look for the good and the blessings around us.

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  Eye, Blessing, Past

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• The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.

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  Differences, Want, Committed

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.

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  Life, Adversity, Differences

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual'.

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  Adversity, Differences, Broken

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light.

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  Depressing, Cheer, Block

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• How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

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  Character, Gossip, Rumor

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.

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  Self Esteem, Communication, Character

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• Once upon hearing a friend's bashing comment I said, "Did you reach that conclusion on your own, or did it come through prayer?"

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  Friendship, Prayer, Hearing

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• Where you have been is not nearly as important as where you are and where you're going.

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  Important, Where You Are, Has Beens

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• True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.

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  Inspirational, Commitment, Goal

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Striving can be more important than arriving.

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  Important, Arriving, Strive

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.

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  Men, Important, Missions

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• What we are is more important than what we have or what is said of us.

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  Important, Said

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• One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.

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  Eye, Self, Average

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• Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.

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  Cheer, Sunset, Sunrise

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

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  Criticism, Down And, Knees

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• Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness and love are heard by our ever-alert, impressionable children.

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  Children, Parent, Listening

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• Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.

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  Perfect, Privilege, Eternity

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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