A Moment of Patience

"A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves a hundred moments of regret."

Anonymous

God Loves Me

"I found out that God loves me."

Galena -- Russian convert 

Eat Ice Cream

"Something is always broke.
Most things can be fixed.
Eat some ice cream.
That usually helps."

Laurie Halse Anderson (Prom)

We Are Who We Are

"Even so, we are a tiny fraction when compared to the billions of people on earth. But we are who we are, and we know what we know, and we are to go forth and preach the gospel."

Boyd K. Packer

Do It Anyway

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, others may be jealous; be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.

Do It Anyway - popularized by Mother Teresa

Take Courage

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed with the things you didn't do than with the things you did do."

Mark Twain

The Lord's Power

"The Lord can make up the difference."

President Zarkou

A Legacy of Love

"The poorest peasants can offer a legacy of love to their children."

It Is In the Doing

"It is in doing -- not just dreaming --that lives are blessed, others are guided, and souls are saved."

Thomas S. Monson (Nov, 2005 Ensign)

A Lesson in Gratitude

"Remember the day's blessings.
Forget the day's troubles."

Anonymous

It Isn't a Sacrifice

"It isn't a sacrifice when you get back more than you give."

Anonymous

A Man's Success

"The highest success a man can achieve is to be revered by his wife and children."

Renee Hawkley (after watching Nickolas Nickleby - 7/30/06)

The Important Things

"The important things that happen to you will happen to you even in the smallest places."

Polly Harvath (Everything on a Waffle)

Be Up and Doing

"I wish to be up and doing. I wish to face each day with resolution and purpose. I wish to use every waking hour to give encouragement, to bless those whose burdens are heavy, to build faith and strength of testimony."

Gordon B. Hinckley (May, 1998 Ensign)

The Plan Will Work

The best plan will only work if you do.

Anonymous

Priorities

"It is not my focus in life to meet other people's priorities or standards.
Neither is it my focus in life to monitor or measure how other people are meeting mine."

Renee Hawkley Pecora

I Believe in God

"I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining.
I believe in love even when I feel it not.
I believe in God, even when He is silent."

Anonymous

The Quality of Mercy

"The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath; it is twice bless'd,
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."

William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

Making a Difference

People who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.

Anonymous

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a choice.

Say Nothing

"You should say nothing that will cause you regret."

David Guterson (Snow Falling on Cedars)

The Squandering of Our Freedom

"If history teaches us anything, it teaches us that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. It means the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom."

Ronald Reagan

Accepting Deviant Behavior?

"We don't have to accept deviant behaviors in order to show love to others."

- Lois Melander -

Promptings

“We watch. We wait. We listen for that still, small voice. When it speaks, wise men and women obey. Promptings of the Spirit are not to be postponed.”

Thomas S. Monson (June, 1997)

Loving People

"I reject the idea that I can't love people whose moral standards are different from my own."

- Renee Hawkley -

Ideas

Ideas make money better than work does.

Act Today

What are you going to do about it today?

Thin Things

Stay out of the thick of thin things.

Pretending There Isn't Any Trouble

“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn’t any.”

Edith Wharton (The House of Mirth)

A Determined Soul

"There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

-Marion D. Hanks - (Elder Hanks asked "his" missionaries to memorize this statement when he was their mission president, as reported by Quentin L. Cook in October, 2011 General Conference talk.)

Feelings Are True

Feelings are always true. They may be based on "facts" that are real or imagined, but the feelings about the "facts," whether real or imagined, are true. We can learn to "school our feelings" so they work to our benefit and to the benefit of others.

Little Things

Little drops of water, little grains of sand,

Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes, humble though they be, 

Make the might ages of eternity.

- Ebenezer Cobham Brewer -

Working Behind the Scenes

You can't work behind the scenes in your own life.

Be Afraid

Be afraid . . . and move forward anyway.

Where You Came From

"If you don't know where you're going, at least you should know where you came from."

- Sue Monk Kidd - (The Invention of Wings)

Relationships Through the Veil

“Relationships can be strengthened through the veil with people we know and love. That is done by our determined effort to continually do what is right.”

- Richard G. Scott -

Their First Calling

“Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling—from which they will never be released—is to one another and then to their children.”

- Boyd K. Packer -

Climbing Kilimanjaro

“It’s hard to believe that a kid like me made it to a place like this.”

- child who climbed Kilimanjaro -