Quotes

One of the fondest memories of my Granddad Nelson was trading quotes regularly over email. Sadly I lost the email archive when I went on my mission, but it has continued to be an interest of mine. I hope you enjoy my collection of quotes. A bit of everything from religion to politics to leadership.

Keeping an oath is not an ultimate good… It is only as good as the ideals it is sworn to. Uniting is not an ultimate good. It is only as good as the purposes for that unification

Understanding has never led to hatred.

My life is yours. My strength, always, is yours. When you are weak, let me be strong. When I am weak, please lend me your strength. And when we are both weak, at least we will not be alone. Never again alone, for our journeys have together become one. My love, forever. This is my oath.

But everything you love is going to hurt you now and then, because it is flawed.

The truth is, there’s a balance. You are a product of what life, society, and people have done to you. You bear blame for what you did, but others bear a lot of it too. It’s never too late to accept that your past might not be an excuse, but it is a valid explanation.

Getting old sucks, but it's preferable to getting cremated.

Ideals are dead things… unless they have people behind them. Laws exist not for themselves, but for those they serve.

Forgiving someone does not make them right, it makes you free.

What if, in every interaction, our goal was to help others feel better about themselves? No matter how they feel about us, we could leave behind a small ray of light - exactly when they might need it most. Even when were walking through our own darkness, the light we shine on someone elses path often finds its way back to brighten our own.

If we never had the power to do terrible things, then what heroism would it be to resist?