It will depend more on being the right one than finding the right one. Your success in marriage will depend largely on your ability to focus on improving yourself, rather than trying to reshape your spouse. It lives on through sickness and sorrow, through prosperity and privation, through accomplishment and disappointment, through time and eternity” ( The Teachings of Spencer W. It is cleanliness of life and sacrifice and unselfishness. It is devotion and companionship, parenthood, common ideals and standards. … The love of which the Lord speaks is not only physical attraction, but also faith, confidence, understanding, and partnership. Kimball (1895–1985) called it, “is not like that association of the world which is misnamed love, but which is mostly physical attraction. On the other hand, “divine” love, as President Spencer W. Though the “Thumper/Bambi” love-at-first-sight may also rise and bloom like the second, it is often merely physical, a cotton candy kind of love that has no substance and later dissolves, leaving nothing but decay and one more divorce statistic. Bambi similarly becomes twitterpated with a beautiful young doe named Faline.įor others, it isn’t so much “falling in love” as it is “rising in love.” Their love is a growing attraction toward another. He is instantly smitten by her lovely charm his eyes become glazed over and dilate to twice their normal size in a hypnotic, enamored stare and his little rabbit’s foot begins to thump the ground at 90 miles an hour. Is love something that you are smitten with, something that strikes you like Cupid’s arrow without any say-so? Because we live in a world of agency, wouldn’t it make sense that the most important decision made in mortality would be our choice and not left in Cupid’s hands? Twitterpated?įor some people, falling in love is a magical encounter, something that seems to happen at first sight, like that scene in the movie Bambi where Thumper becomes “twitterpated” at the first sight of a beautiful little bunny rabbit. … This choice will be the most important of all the choices you make in your life” ( Ensign, May 1998, 51). … The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage.
… You will know no greater happiness than that found in your home. It will occupy all of your thoughts and be the stuff of which your dreams are made. … The time will come when you will fall in love. Hinckley has said, “that we shall live together in love and peace and harmony. “The Lord has ordained that we should marry,” President Gordon B. Finding your eternal valentine is the ultimate treasure hunt. There have been more books written, more movies made, and more songs sung about love than any other topic. There is nothing more powerful than love, nothing so motivating or that touches so many lives.
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