Sunday, February 23, 2014

Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, eight hours recreation

"One of President Young’s daughters recalled that he had taught: “Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labour, sleep and recreation. All men, women and children should labour; all must sleep; and if mental and physical balance is to be maintained, all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity—never idleness. ‘Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation’ was Brigham Young’s motto.”"

Susa Young Gates and Leah D. Widtsoe, The Life Story of Brigham Young (1931), 251, as quoted in "A Rock-Solid Foundation for Marriage," Brent A. Barlow, Ensign, June 2003
https://www.lds.org/ensign/2003/06/a-rock-solid-foundation-for-marriage?lang=eng

Saturday, February 22, 2014

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

- Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad," Conclusion
 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm