I'm reading Standing for Something by President Gordon B. Hinckley (my favorite prophet, by the way!), and he talks about love and the power it has to change lives. This is not some corny thing we're talking about here - the idyllic whimsy of fairy tales. This is the real thing. The world is a really scary place. Why? Most of it has to do with the lack of love and caring for each other, and the reckless abandon many treat people with. Treat is almost too kind a word - they attack people or use them for their own purposes, "tak[ing] the advantage...and digging a pit for [their] neighbor" (2 Nephi 28:8). The world is the worse for the lack of love and is the better for the love that we find in small patches throughout it. In reality, the adage "all we need is love" has a lot of truth to it. If all we did were seasoned by the true caring that it ought to be, then what an amazing place this would be.
My favorite quote from this book so far (I'm on page 9): "Nobody can live fully and happily who lives only unto himself or herself."
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