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It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern

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Gordon B. Hinckley
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Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1910 to 2008; Wikidata Q553147, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q553147 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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