Oaks Quotes

• You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Needs, Wise Words

  "Joy and Mercy". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, November 1991.

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• If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Destination, Wrong Road, Ifs

  "Be Not Deceived". www.lds.org. October 2004.

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• ...When a choice will make a real difference in our lives—obvious or not—and when we are living in tune with the Spirit and seeking his guidance, we can be sure we will receive the guidance we need to attain our goal.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Real, Differences, Goal

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• The Atonement of Jesus Christ and the healing it offers do much more than provide the opportunity for repentance from sins. The Atonement also gives us the strength to endure "pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind," because our Savior also took upon Him "the pains and the sicknesses of his people" (Alma 7:11). Brothers and sisters, if your faith and prayers and the power of the priesthood do not heal you from an affliction, the power of the Atonement will surely give you the strength to bear the burden.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Brother, Jesus, Prayer

  "He Heals the Heavy Laden". Dallin H. Oaks' priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. October 2006.

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• Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Priorities In Life, Choices, Desire

  "Desire". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. April 2011.

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• We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Order, Christ

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• If you wish to marry well, inquire well.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Wish, Wells, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Dallin H Oaks from Jan 16, 2014

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• Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Faith, Soulmate, Knowledge

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• You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Being Happy, Simple

  "Living Our Values, Closing the Ethical Gap" by Jeffrey Rubin, bigthink.com.

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• The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

  Napoleon Hill

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.38, Penguin

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• Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Differences, Diversity, Choices

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• You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

  Kirsten Dunst

  Happiness, Simple, Satisfaction

  "Kirsten Dunst: after the apocalypse" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2011.

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• You can never get enough of what you don't want.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Happiness, Spiritual

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Morning, Afternoon, Shade

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• The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.

  James Lee

  Fall, Rain, Cutting

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• The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

  Walter Scott

  Adversity, Presence Of Mind, Tempest

  Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.5509, Delphi Classics

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• What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak. Write fiction and you relinquish reason. You start with an acorn and you end up with a mackerel.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Mind, Acorns

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• Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspirational, Fall, Nuts

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• The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.

  Noel Coward

  Political, House, Theatre

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• On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's no need to first describe the kitchen."

  James Thayer

  Fall, Writing, Blow

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• Hither rolls the storm of heat;
  I feel its finer billows beat
  Like a sea which me infolds;
  Heat with viewless fingers moulds,
  Swells, and mellows, and matures,
  Paints, and flavors, and allures,
  Bird and brier inly warms,
  Still enriches and transforms,
  Gives the reed and lily length,
  Adds to oak and oxen strength,
  Transforming what it doth infold,
  Life out of death, new out of old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Oxen, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.182, Delphi Classics

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• Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak.

  Willard Mullin

  Common Folk, Folks, Strongest

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• Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Science, Genius

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• Where, twisted round the barren oak,
  The summer vine in beauty clung,
  And summer winds the stillness broke,
  The crystal icicle is hung.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.8

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• Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

  Bill Vaughan

  Heart, Brave, England

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