Insightful Star Wars Quotes

I love some of the quotes off of Star Wars. They are so thought-provoking :D

 

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

• “Do or do not... there is no try.”
  
• “Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.”
  
• “The Force will be with you, always.”
  
• “A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.”
  
• ‎"Clear your mind must be..."
  
• “Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.”
  
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  “Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Luke... Luke... do not... do not underestimate the pow...ers of the Emperor or suffer your father's fate you will. Luke, when gone am I... the last of the Jedi will you be. Luke, the Force runs strong in your family. Pass on what you have learned, Luke. There is... another... Sky... walker.”See More
  
• ‎"The dark side clouds everything..."
  
• “The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.”
  
• “Yes, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.”
  
• “[Luke:] I can’t believe it. [Yoda:] That is why you fail.”
  
• “Ohhh. Great warrior.Wars not make one great.”
  
• “May the Force be with you.”
  
• And some fun ones :D
  
• “I do, yes, I do. Sick have I become. Old and weak. When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm?”

Humility: If Our Heart is Right

“If our heart is right, we will be free from the excesses and risks of being either too demanding or not demanding enough with ourselves. The greater our willingness to be humble about our errors and inadequacies, the less we will be likely to repeat them and the more we will learn from our experience. As this attitude draws us closer to God, our confidence in his presence will grow, as will our assurance that we do not seek his face in vain. We might then make the same discovery as did a righteous group of Book of Mormon people: ‘Nevertheless they did fast and pray oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy and consolation, yea even to the purifying and the sanctification of their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their yielding their hearts unto God’ (Helaman 3:35).”

This is a paragraph in a book I am reading called “The Broken Heart: Applying the Atonement to Life’s Experiences”. It was written by Bruce C. Hafen and is a wonderful book. I encourage all to read it.

This book has given me a new outlook on personal life. Every time I read it and ask myself how I can do better. I hope y’all will enjoy it as much as I do.

When I read this quote, which is basically the summary of one of the chapters in the book, I set a higher standard for myself to continually strive to be more humble before God. I know that as I do this I will find a strength added upon myself so that I can overcome the weaknesses that I have.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.     

Bernard Malamud

    The author of The Natural

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare died on this day the 23rd of April in 1616 at the age of 52

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

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Victory Over the Tomb

"I declare my personal witness that death has been conquered, victory over the tomb has been won. May the words made sacred by Him who fulfilled them become actual knowledge to all. ... He is risen."
—President Thomas S. Monson

Our Bull’s-Eye

“An image suggesting this kind of private relationship with the Lord is described in a story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson tells of his boyhood, growing  up in a part of England where darkness came early in the evening. He and his friends imitated British policemen by carrying small, tin “bull’s-eye” lanterns on their belts. Just for the fun of it, Stevenson and his friends made a game out of hiding the glowing lantern inside their buttoned overcoats and then making their way along the dark paths as if they had no light with them. In Stevenson’s words:

When two of these [lads] met, there would be an anxious, “have you got your lantern?” and a gratified “Yes!” That was the shibboleth, and very needful, too; for, as it was the rule to keep our glory contained, none could recognize a lantern-bearer unless (like the polecat) by the smell….The essence of this bliss was to walk by yourself in the black night, the slide shut, the top-coat buttoned, not a ray escaping, whether to conduct your footsteps or to make your glory public,—a mere pillar of darkness in the dark; and all the while, deep down in the privacy of your foo’s heart, to know you had a bull’s-eye at your belt, and to exult and sing over the knowledge….

[One’s] life from without may seem but a rude mound of mud: [but] there will be some golden chamber at the heart of it, in which he dwells delighted; and for as dark as his pathway seems to the observer, he will have some kind of bull’s-eye at his belt.

Stevenson then describes the ultimate subjectivity of true joy, noting that other people simply cannot fully appreciate the innermost delights and sorrows of our lives. He suggests that if we could only experience forms of joy quickly perceived and acknowledged by others, that kind of joy would fall far short of the high forms of happiness and insight of which the human soul is capable…

To feel this assurance is to sense the reward of peace in this world and the promise of eternal life in the world to come. This is a more excellent way.”

-The Broken Heart: Applying the Atonement to Life’s Experiences (Expanded Edition) by Bruce C. Hafen