Commonplace Book

A Commonplace Book. “Commonplace”, from the Latin 'locus communis', meaning “a theme or argument of general application.”  For me, it is a collection of thoughts, ideas, anecdotes, poems, observations, and quotes that stood out and caught my attention, some with comment, some without. Essentially a scrapbook, a repository of thoughts too good to just pass over and let go.

  

"Man should not slow the watch and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of his life is a miracle and a mystery."

(HG Wells 1866-1946, English writer) 

"It is not the privilege of those called as leaders to slide the Church about as though it were on casters, hoping to put it into the path that men or youth will be safe within it."

(Boyd K Packer, Inspiring Music—Worthy Thoughts, October Conference 1973)

“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien

As to be hated needs but to be seen;

Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,

We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”

(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet)

"Therefore, for this cause, that men might be saved, hath repentance been declared."

(Helaman 12:22)

"We were born to die, and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven."

(Russell M Nelson, Doors of Death, April Conference 1992)