Quotes :)

"It's high time you were shown that you really don't know all there is to be known."

-Dr. Seuss

"Even after all this time the sun never says to the Earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that; it lights the whole sky."

-Hafiz
 

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it."

-Ferris Bueller
 

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

-Confucius
 

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."

-Dr. Seuss
 

"How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to change the world."

-Anne Frank
 

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."

-Henry Ford
 

"The simple secret is this: put your trust in the Lord, do your best, then leave the rest to Him."

-Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Come what may, and love it." -Joseph B. Wirthlin

"We never talk to a mere mortal." -C.S. Lewis

"If you pursue your star, you cannot fail to reach a splendid harbor." -Dante, The Inferno

"We have no way of knowing when our privilege to extend a helping hand will unfold before us. The road to Jericho each of us travels bears no name, and the weary traveler who needs our help may be one unknown." -Thomas S. Monson

"Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well." -William Shakespeare

"The mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n." -John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wherefore, ye may also have hope, and be partakers of the gift, if ye will but have faith." -Ether 12:9

Humility is the recognition and attitude that one must rely on the Lord's assistance to make it through this life." -Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Like the polar star in the heavens, regardless of what the future holds, there stands the Redeemer of the world, the Son of God, certain and sure as the anchor of our immortal lives. he is the rock of our salvation, our strength, our comfort, the very focus of our faith." -Gordon B. Hinckley

"It is not an easy thing, however, to be shown one's weaknesses, as these are regularly demonstrated by life's circumstances. Nevertheless, this is part of coming unto Christ, and it is a vital, if painful, part of God's plan of happiness." -Neal A. Maxwell

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss

"Decisions determine destiny." -Thomas S. Monson

"Cherish associations with others. I have learned everyone can teach me something. I love to learn something from each person with whom I associate." -Thomas S. Monson

"For can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee, O house of Israel. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me." -1 Nephi 21:15-16

"And he gathereth his children from the four quarters of the earth; and he numbereth his sheep, and they know him; and there shall be one fold and one shepherd; and he shall feed his sheep, and in him they shall find pasture." -1 Nephi 22:25

"What a marvelous privilege it is to hear God's messages for each of us during general conference! Let us prepare well for this great blessing of divine guidance delivered by His chosen servants. For this is no ordinary blessing." -Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"He has the power to heal and strengthen the soul. He is Jesus Christ." -Per G. Malm

"Some of you may be shy by nature or consider yourselves inadequate to respond affirmatively to the call to serve. Remember that this is the Lord's work, and when we are on the Lord's errand, we are entitled to the Lord's help. The Lord will shape the back to bear the burden places upon it." -Thomas S.Monson

"So replace any fear or apprehension you have no with faith--faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, faith in your fathers and mothers. Stay close to them." -M. Russel Nelson

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a spring day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." -Sir J. Lubbock

 “If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” -Henry Van Dyke

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

“There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.” -William Sharp 

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." – Robert Brault

"I would do anything for this gospel. It is all I have." -Albert, 17 Miracles

"The hardest battle was behind us now, the battle of faith versus fear." -17 Miracles

"When I saw you I fell in love and you smiled because you knew." -William Shakespeare

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." -Edward Everett Hale

  "Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. and once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it." -Bill Cosby

"We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are." -Calvin and Hobbes

"Sometimes you have to let things go so there's room for better things to come into your life." -Gossip Girl

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right-for you'll be criticized anyway." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"People may foget what you said but they'll never forget how you made them feel." -Maya Angelou

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"As we pursue our secular studies, let us also add to our lives the cultivation of the Spirit. If we do so, God will bless us with that peace and those blessings which come from Him alone." -Gordon B. Hinckley

"But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He gave us. And to endure well is to keep those commandments whatever the opposition, whatever the temptation, and whatever the tumult around us. We have that clear understanding because the restored gospel makes the plan of happiness so plain." -Elder Henry B. Eyring

"Satan may have lost Jesus, but he does not believe he has lost us." -Howard W. Hunter

"All beings who have bodies have power over those who have not. The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power." -Joseph Smith

"Sometimes we are tempted to let our lives be governed more by convenience than by covenant. but there is no spiritual power in living by convenience. The power comes as we keep our covenants." -Elder M. Russell Ballard

"I've conquered an empire but I've not been able to conquer myself." -Peter the Great

"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own." -Cicero

"Closely related to our own obligation to repent is the generosity of letting others do the same." -Elder Jeffery R. Holland

"Consider your origin; you were not formed to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge." -Dante

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." -Frederick Keonig

"Hell is paved with good intentions." -Samuel Johnson

"It is my judgment that any man or woman can do more to conform to the laws of God in one year in this life than they could do in ten years when they are dead. The spirit can only repent and change, and then the battle has to go forward with the flesh afterwards. It is much easier to overcome and serve the Lord when both flesh and spirit are combined as one. This is the time when men are more pliable and susceptible. We will find when we are dead every desire, every feeling will be greatly intensified. When clay is pliable it is much easier to change than when it gets hard and sets." -Melvin J. Ballard

"The secret of the good life is in protection and prevention. Those who yield to evil are usually those who have placed themselves in a vulnerable position." -Spencer W. Kimball
"Repentance is always in order, even in the eleventh hour, for even that delayed action is better than none at all." -Spencer W. Kimball

"Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music still in us. Let us rather use this precious mortal probation to move confidently and gloriously upward toward the eternal life which God our Father gives to those who keep his commandments." -Spencer W. Kimball

"For are we not all prodigal sons and daughters who need to repent and partake of the forgiving mercy of our Heavenly Father and then follow His example?" -Gordon B. Hinckley
"Simply stated, testimony-real testimony, born of the Spirit and confirmed by the Holy Ghost-changes lives. It changes how you think and what you do. It changes what you say. It affects every priority you set and every choice you make." -Elder M. Russell Ballard

"When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power." -Ezra Taft Benson

"That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more light and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day." -Doctrine and Covenants 50:24

"Love demands action if it is to be continuing. Love is a process. Love is not a declaration. Love is not an announcement. Love is not a passing fancy. Love is not a convenience. 'If ye love me, keep my commandments,' and 'If ye love me feed my sheep' are God-given proclamations that should remind us we can often best show our love through the processes of feeding and keeping.... Certainly the best way for us to show our love in keeping and feeding is by taking the time to prove it hour by hour and day by day. Our expression of love and comfort are empty if our actions don't match." -Marvin J. Ashton

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." -William James

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ”

-Christopher Reeve

"But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest courage, the courage to suffer." 

-Victor Frankl

“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. ”

-Marcus Aurelius

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ”

-Viktor Frankl

"We pray to get to know our Heavenly Father. We repent to get to know our Savior"

-Unknown

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

-Charles Dickens

"In our weakened moments, the adversary seeks to steal our spiritual promises. If we are not watchful, our injured, childlike spirit will retreat back into the cold, dark crust of our former bloated ego, leaving behind the warm, healing light of the Savior. "

 - Neil L. Andersen

"Remove any of your fear with faith. Trust the power of God to guide you."

-  M. Russell Ballard

"As His children we should learn at home to love God and to know that we can ask Him for the help we need." 

-  M. Russell Ballard

"Promised personal revelation comes when we ask for it, prepare for it, and go forward in faith, trusting that it will be poured out upon us."

-Julie B. Beck

"There may be periods, sometimes long ones, when our lives seem to flow with little difficulty. But it is in the nature of our being human that comfort gives way to distress, periods of good health come to an end, and misfortunes arrive. Particularly when the comfortable times have gone on for a while, the arrival of suffering or the loss of material security can bring fear and sometimes even anger."

- Henry B. Eyring

"It will comfort us when we must wait in distress for the Savior’s promised relief that He knows, from experience, how to heal and help us. The Book of Mormon gives us the certain assurance of His power to comfort. And faith in that power will give us patience as we pray and work and wait for help. He could have known how to succor us simply by revelation, but He chose to learn by His own personal experience."

-Henry B. Eyring

"Pray as if everything depends on the Lord and then act like everything depends on you."

-President Thomas S. Monson

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

-Alexander Graham Bell 

"Wherever you now find yourself on the road of discipleship, you are on the right road, the road toward eternal life."

-Elder Neil L. Anderson

"Many may profess a measure of faith in God, but without sincere repentance, faith cannot be fully operative."

- Russell M. Nelson

"We do not remember days... We remember moments."

-Cesare Pavese

"In love, conversations play an almost greater role than anything else. Love is the most talkative of all feelings and consists to a great extent completely of talkativeness."

-Robert Musil

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. ”

 -Jalal ad-Din Rumi

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything but they make the best of everything."

-Unknown

"There are some practical principles that enhance revelation. First, yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost. Those emotions must be eliminated, or our chance for receiving revelation is slight"

-  Richard G. Scott

"I have seen individuals encountering challenges who knew what to do when it was beyond their own experience because they trusted in the Lord and knew that He would guide them to solutions that were urgently required." 

-  Richard G. Scott

"Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine power to accomplish what must be done. An individual motivated by a desire for praise or recognition will not qualify to be taught by the Spirit. An individual who is arrogant or who lets his or her emotions influence decisions will not be powerfully led by the Spirit." 

 -  Richard G. Scott

"God does not bring two people together for the benefit of just one." 

- Rosemary West

"The worst disability is a bad attitude."

-Michael Muir

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

- Leonardo da Vinci 

" Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."

-Jean de la Bruyere 

 "All of us... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak."

-Gene Wolfe

"Attack your weakness. It's very tempting to stay in familiar territory. You can only learn by facing an issue. You can't make a major difference doing things in a minor way."

- Nelson Shanks

“There is a line of demarcation well defined between the Lord’s territory and the devil’s territory. If you will stay on the Lord’s side of the line you will be under his influence and will have no desire to do wrong; but if you cross to the devil’s side of that line one inch you are in the tempter’s power and if he is successful, you will not be able to think or even reason properly because you will have lost the Spirit of the Lord” 

-George Albert Smith

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.” 

-Bob Marley

"President Brigham Young explained that our families are not yet ours. The Lord has committed them to us to see how we will treat them. Only if we are faithful will they be given to us forever. What we do on earth determines whether or not we will be worthy to become heavenly parents."

"The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

-Anna Quindlen

"The proud stand more in fear of men's judgment than of God's judgment.  'What will men think of me?' weighs heavier than 'What will God think of me?'"

-Ezra Taft Benson

"Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?"

-Ezra Taft Benson

"Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'"

-Ezra Taft Benson

"Not a day has gone by that I have not communicated with my Father in Heaven through prayer. It is a relationship I cherish—one I would literally be lost without. If you do not now have such a relationship with your Father in Heaven, I urge you to work toward that goal. As you do so, you will be entitled to His inspiration and guidance in your life."

—Thomas S. Monson

“I would not seek to force people to live up to my ideals but rather love them into doing the thing that is right.” 

-George Albert Smith

"Don’t worry about how inexperienced you are or think you are, but think about what, with the Lord’s help, you can become."

—Henry B. Eyring

“Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great. ”

-Roger de Bussy-Rabutin 

"We can fill our lives with good, leaving no room for anything else. We have so much good from which to choose that we need never partake of evil."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"I believe happiness comes from a clear conscience and from being without guile or deception. It means avoiding jealousy and envy. It means cultivating peace in our homes and enjoying the peace in our hearts that righteousness brings. It comes from a knowledge and assurance, given by the Spirit, that the life we are pursuing accords with God’s will and is acceptable to him." 

 - Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Regular temple work can provide spiritual strength. It can be an anchor in daily life, a source of guidance, protection, security, peace, and revelation. No work is more spiritual than temple work." 

 - Joseph B. Wirthlin