this is an ongoing work. there might be some duplicates, weird half done things, who knows? it is constantly under construction. as always, i appreciate observations, editorial notes, and suggestions.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Don’t count your days—make your days count.
— Muhammad Ali
MAYA ANGELOU
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou
ANONYMOUS
Your attitude will determine your altitude.
- Anonymous
Meekness is knowing who you are and not having to prove it.
- Anonymous
MARVIN J. ASHTON
"Some mothers seem to have the capacity and energy to make their children's clothes, bake, give piano lessons, go to Relief Society, teach Sunday School, attend parent-teacher association meetings, and so on. Other mothers look upon such women as models and feel inadequate, depressed, and think they are failures when they make comparisons... Sisters, do not allow yourselves to be made to feel inadequate or frustrated because you cannot do everything others seem to be accomplishing. Rather, each should assess her own situation, her own energy, and her own talents, and then choose the best way to mold her family into a team, a unit that works together and supports each other. Only you and your Father in Heaven know your needs, strengths, and desires. Around this knowledge your personal course must be charted and your choices made."
— Marvin J. Ashton
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/print/1984/04/choose-the-good-part?lang=eng
"The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time."
— Marvin J. Ashton
http://www.lds.org/ensign/1975/11/love-takes-time
Someone has said, “A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am.” Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him."
— Marvin J. Ashton
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1972/10/what-is-a-friend
Controversy and contention are weakening habits. If Satan can succeed in creating in us the pastime of arguing, quarreling, and contention, it is easier for him to bind us with heavier sins which can destroy our eternal lives. Anger is a poor substitute for self-mastery and compassionate service."
— Marvin J. Ashton
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1991/10/strengthen-the-feeble-knees?lang=eng
Oh, change is hard! Change can be rough. . . .There is nothing so unchanging, so inevitable as change itself.
-MARVIN J. ASHTON
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/print/1979/10/progress-through-change?lang=eng
"Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them."
— Marvin J. Ashton
"Do not allow yourselves to be made to feel inadequate or frustrated because you cannot do everything others seem to be accomplishing. Only you and your Father in Heaven know your needs, strengths, and desires. Around this knowledge your personal course must be charted and your choices made."
— Marvin. J. Ashton
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1984/04/choose-the-good-part?lang=eng
— Marvin J. Ashton
"Someone has wisely stated that hate is not the opposite of love. Apathy is. We will not have time for apathy in life’s journey if we speak and think positively. Seek, search, and work for worthy eternal qualities and friends."
— Marvin J. Ashton
Real charity is not something you give away; it is
something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the
virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the
same again.
—Marvin J. Ashton
Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are
kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else,
when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain
quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and
shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or
resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t
handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to
take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive
someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other.
—Marvin J. Ashton
If we could look into each other’s hearts and
understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would
treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience,
tolerance, and care.
—Marvin J. Ashton
Let us open our arms to each other, accept each
other for who we are, assume everyone is doing the best he or she
can, and look for ways to help leave quiet messages of love and
encouragement
—Marvin J. Ashton
I declare with all the strength I possess that we
have a Heavenly Father who claims and loves all of us. You are His
son or you are His daughter, and He loves YOU!
A constant waiting for a brighter future may cause
us to lose the beautiful today. Some spend so much time getting
ready to live for an unknown future, too late they discover there is
no time to live. Very often in our anxiousness for the joys
of the future we run away from the very things we are wanting and
needing today. An appropriate examination of the passing moment will
prove it leads to eternity. We need to constantly remind ourselves
eternity is in process now.
Marvin j ashton
MARCUS AURELIUS
M. RUSSELL BALLARD
And remember, like the little honeybee’s
one-twelfth teaspoon of honey provided to the hive, if we multiply
our efforts by tens of thousands, even millions of prayerful efforts
to share God’s love for His children through Christian service,
there will be a compounding effect of good that will bring the Light
of Christ to this ever-darkening world. Bound together, we will bring
love and compassion to our own family and to the lonely,
the poor, the broken, and to those of our Heavenly Father’s
children who are searching for truth and peace.
like the little honeybee’s one-twelfth teaspoon
of honey provided to the hive, if we multiply our efforts . . .
there will be a compounding effect of good that will bring the Light
of Christ to this ever-darkening world
The name the Savior has given to His Church tells us exactly who we are and what we believe. We believe that Jesus Christ is the Savior and the Redeemer of the world. He atoned for all who would repent of their sins, and He broke the bands of death and provided the resurrection from the dead. We follow Jesus Christ.
M russell ballard
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/the-importance-of-a-name?lang=eng
german - http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/the-importance-of-a-name?lang=deu
In appraising our present attitude, we might ask: “Am I working to become my best self? Do I set worthy and attainable goals? Do I look toward the positive in life? Am I alert to ways that I can render more and better service? Am I doing more than is required of me?”
Remember, a good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude fair results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.
- M. RUSSELL BALLARD
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/print/1981/04/providing-for-our-needs?lang=eng
Let our testimonies of Him be heard and our love for Him always be in our hearts,
M. Russell Ballard
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/the-importance-of-a-name?lang=eng
Mögen wir unser Zeugnis vom Herrn erklingen lassen und unsere Liebe zu ihm immer im Herzen tragen
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/the-importance-of-a-name?lang=deu
MARGUERITE BARANKITSE
The richness is not what we have. It is what we are.
Marguerite Barankitse
http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/international/2013/11/25/spc-african-voices-marguerite-barankitse-b.cnn.html
EZRA TAFT BENSON
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent
spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity.
Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us,
is not the end.
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1971/04/life-is-eternal?lang=eng#watch=video
DAVID BRINLEY
I will never understand how Brother Tashiro, the
district president, saw it. He was obviously late as he hurried
through the outside door to yet another meeting, briefcase in one
hand, cassette recorder and slide projector precariously positioned
under the opposite arm. His mind was surely filled with the endless
responsibilities of running a mission district; yet he, too, somehow
saw the tiny spider among the crowd. Immediately stopping, he set
aside his load and, excusing himself, parted the crowd, stooped down
and gently scooped the spider into his palm, then released it outside
to a more hospitable environment. As though hardly aware of the
interruption, he hurried to the waiting meeting.
It was so simple, such a natural act for that
humble servant of the Lord. Then a wonderful analogy unfolded before
me. I saw in my mind’s eye the Savior, stooping down from the
complex business of creating worlds without number, to personally
teach, exhort, and sacrifice for the sake of an uncomprehending human
race, a seemingly insignificant speck in the endless corridors of
eternity. With Godly devotion, he lifted man from certain doom,
transporting him to an environment of freedom and opportunity wherein
he could live and grow.
http://www.lds.org/new-era/1987/04/the-spider?lang=eng
C
GEORGE CARLIN
People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it
were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next
several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become
unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and
understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.'
- George Carlin (Brain Droppings)
- George Carlin (Brain Droppings)
ELAINE CANNON
Part of our precious legacy— to be remembered and renewed— is that though deepening trials throng our way, we know that our afflictions can be consecrated to our good.
Good can come from trouble. Trauma can enliven the heart and enrich the soul. Clouds do have silver linings,
and the leaf will burst again on the dry branch. “Weeping may endure for [the] night,” sang the psalmist,
“but joy cometh in the morning.”
-Elaine Cannon
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1982/04/reach-for-joy
The daily work of the Lord involves changing hopeless to hopeful —for all of us. And it is for us to find
at last that in the midst of winter we have within us an invincible summer. In a world filled with adversity
we can reach for joy.
Elaine Cannon
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1982/04/reach-for-joy
LEWIS CARROLL
“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
D. TODD CHRISTOFFERSON
dear sisters, we rely on the moral force you bring to the world . . .we rely on blessings you bring down from heaven. . . we pray for your influence to be sustained
d. todd christofferson
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-moral-force-of-women
Liebe Schwestern, wir bauen auf die moralische Kraft, die Sie in die Welt, in die Ehe, die Familie und in die Kirche bringen. Wir bauen auf die Segnungen, die Sie durch Ihre Gebete und Ihren Glauben vom Himmel herabrufen. Wir beten für Ihre Sicherheit, Ihr Wohl und Ihr Glück und dafür, dass Ihr Einfluss aufrechterhalten bleibt.
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-moral-force-of-women?lang=deu
WINSTON CHURCHHILL
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill
http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=2137
DALAI LAMA
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
ELAINE S. DALTON
You are your daughter’s guardian in more than the legal sense. Be present in your daughter’s life. Let her know your standards, your expectations, your hopes and dreams for her success and happiness. Interview her, get to know her friends and, when the time comes, her boyfriends. Help her understand the importance of education. Help her understand that the principle of modesty is a protection. Help her choose music and media that invite the Spirit and are consistent with her divine identity. Be an active part of her life. And if in her teenage years she should not come home from a date on time, go get her. She will resist and tell you that you have ruined her social life, but she will inwardly know that you love her and that you care enough to be her guardian.
Elaine s dalton
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/love-her-mother
LEONARDO DA VINCI
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Doctrine and Covenants
let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly;
then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the
doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews
from heaven.” (Verse 45.) [D&C
121:45]
The doctrines of salvation taught by this prophet
distill upon our souls as the very dews from heaven (see D&C
121:45
in the sight of the Lord, it is not so much on what we have done or where we have been, but much more on where we are willing to go.
Edward Dube
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/look-ahead-and-believe
In den Augen des Herrn spielt es keine so große Rolle, was wir getan haben oder wo wir uns befunden haben, sondern wohin zu gehen wir bereit sind.
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/look-ahead-and-believe
RICHARD
C. EDGLEY
faith can help us to
see the good, even when life’s path seems to be layered only with
thorns, thistles, and craggy rocks.
- Richard C. Edgley
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2002/04/for-thy-good?
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2002/04/for-thy-good?lang=deu
THOMAS A. EDISON
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
GEORGE ELIOT
It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but that our power to do has increased. -- a favorite Ralph Waldo Emerson quote of Heber J. Grant
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2000/04/the-power-of-self-mastery
http://www.lds.org/new-era/1972/01/heber-j-grant-a-man-without-excuses
EVERYBODY SAID IT!
be open minded, but so open that your brain falls out.
"If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out."
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out."
— Carl Sagan
"Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out."
— G.K. Chesterton
"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."
— Arthur Hays Sulzberger
"Keep an open mind, but no so open that your brains fall out"
— James Edward Oberg
[D]on't be so open minded that your brain falls out."
— Nick Alexander
| "keep your mind open, but not as open that your brain will
fall out" — Richar Dawkins I think |
DR: FRANK-N-FURTER
Don't dream it, be it.
NEIL GAIMAN
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
MAHATMA GANDHI
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
ROBERT D. HALES
Waiting upon the Lord gives us a priceless opportunity to discover that there are many who wait upon us. Our children wait upon us to show patience, love, and understanding toward them. Our parents wait upon us to show gratitude and compassion. Our brothers and sisters wait upon us to be tolerant, merciful, and forgiving. Our spouses wait upon us to love them as the Savior has loved each one of us.
Robert d hales
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done
Every one of us is more beloved to the Lord than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder toward ourselves.
Robert D Hales
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done
Jeder von uns wird vom Herrn mehr geliebt, als wir wahrscheinlich verstehen oder uns vorstellen können. Begegnen wir daher einander mit mehr Güte, und seien wir auch uns selbst gegenüber gütiger.
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done
LOUISE L. HAY
Every thought we think is creating our future.
– Louise L. Hay
AUDREY HEPBURN
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
― Audrey Hepburn
GORDON B. HINCKLEY
“Try a little harder to be a little better.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley
Paul never hedged nor quibbled when setting forth the requirements of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is so today. The Lord himself declared that “strait is the gate and narrow is the way.” Any system dealing with the eternal consequences of human behavior must set guidelines and adhere to them, and no system can long command the loyalties of men that does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and particularly of self-discipline. The cost in comfort may be great. The sacrifice may be real. But this very demanding reality is the substance of which come character and strength and nobility.
Permissiveness never produced greatness. Integrity, loyalty, strength are virtues whose sinews are developed through the struggles that go on within a man as he practices self-discipline under the demands of divinely spoken truth.
Gordon b. hinckley
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1973/04/the-true-strength-of-the-church
It is a responsibility divinely laid upon us to bear one another's burdens, to strengthen one another, to encourage one another, to lift one another, to look for the good in one another, and to emphasize that good.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley
http://www.lds.org/church/news/viewpoint-try-to-see-world-from-others-perspective?lang=eng
Keep trying, be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged, things will work out.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley
http://www.lds.org/ensign/1995/06/president-gordon-b-hinckley-stalwart-and-brave-he-stands
http://www.lds.org/ensign/1997/04/look-to-the-future-with-optimism
"You have not failed until you quit trying."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Way To Be!: 9 Rules For Living The Good Life)
"Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
"Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice"
— Gordon B. Hinckley
"Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others...."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
"Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others"
— Gordon B. Hinckley
"When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life)
Love is like the North Star. In a changing world, it's always constant."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?"
— Gordon B. Hinckley
"Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Woman is God’s supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the land, after vegetation and animal life had been created, and after man had been placed on the earth, was woman created; and only then was the work pronounced complete and good."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
"It's not as bad as you sometimes think it is. It ALL works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It will all work out. If you do your best, it all works out. Put your trust in God and move forward, with faith and confidence in the future. The lord will not forsake us... If we put our trust in him, if we will pray to him, if we will live worthy of his blessings, He will hear our prayers."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, glorious can be our future.
Gordon B. Hinckley
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1997/10/look-to-the-future
Unsere Vergangenheit war groß, unsere Gegenwart ist wundervoll, unsere Zukunft kann herrlich sein.
Gordon B. Hinckley
JEFFERY R. HOLLAND
The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future
the past is to be learned from but not lived in.
Jeffery R Holland
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/look-ahead-and-believe?lang=eng
„Die Vergangenheit ist dazu da, dass man aus ihr lernt, nicht aber in ihr lebt.
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/look-ahead-and-believe?lang=eng&clang=deu
Fatigue is the common enemy of us all—so slow down, rest up, replenish, and refill. Physicians promise us that if we do not take time to be well, we most assuredly will take time later on to be ill.
Jeffery R. Holland
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/like-a-broken-vessel?lang=eng
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln
LUNA LOVEGOOD
Luna talking to Harry-
We believe you, by the way.
Thanks. Seems you're about the only ones that do.
I don't think that's true. But I suppose that's how he wants you to feel.
What do you mean?
Well if I were You-Know-Who, I'd want you to feel cut off from everyone else. Because if it's just you alone you're not as much of a threat.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373889/quotes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_92mKlQOlk
JOHN MAXWELL
Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward."
— John Maxwell - goodreads
NEAL A. MAXWELL
"No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity. "
— Neal A. Maxwell
when the real history of mankind is exposed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies?
neal a maxwell
"When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time."
— Neal A. Maxwell
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/the-moral-force-of-women?lang=eng
God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children. - Neal A. Maxwell
http://www.lds.org/ensign/1996/06/becoming-a-disciple
All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving. - Neal A. Maxwell
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1976/10/notwithstanding-my-weakness?lang=eng
DAVID O. MCKAY
"Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world."
— David O. McKay
http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/presidents/controllers/potcController.jsp?leader=9&topic=quotes
http://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-david-o-mckay/chapter-16?lang=eng
http://www.lds.org/ensign/print/1995/03/a-joyful-mother-of-children?lang=eng&clang=eng
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother"
— David O. McKay
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/love-her-mother
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2002/10/dad-are-you-awake?lang=eng
http://www.lds.org/ensign/2006/09/latter-day-prophets-speak-the-sacred-role-of-fathers?lang=eng
http://www.lds.org/ensign/2005/07/strengthening-the-family-a-solemn-responsibility-to-love-and-care
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1972/04/successful-parenthood-a-noteworthy-accomplishment
„Ein Vater kann nichts Besseres für seine [Tochter] tun, als [ihre] Mutter zu lieben.“
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/love-her-mother?lang=deu
Ein Vater kann nichts Besseres für seine Kinder tun, als ihre Mutter zu lieben.“
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2002/10/dad-are-you-awake?lang=deu
The privilege to work is a gift.
The power to work is a blessing.
The love of work is success.
— David O. McKay
http://www.lds.org/ensign/2009/12/the-blessing-of-work#footnote1-04212_000_012
http://www.lds.org/friend/1975/06/work-is-a-blessing?lang=eng
"Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls"
— David O. McKay
http://www.lds.org/music/resources/music-quotes?lang=eng
"That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don't have to think. "
— David O. McKay
http://www.lds.org/ensign/print/2001/10/developing-character?lang=eng&clang=eng
http://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-david-o-mckay/chapter-9?lang=eng
"Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach."
— David O. McKay
http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/presidents/controllers/potcController.jsp?leader=9&topic=quotes
http://www.lds.org/ensign/1996/03/i-have-a-question?lang=eng
"What you think about when you don't think, shows who you really are."
— David O. McKay
"The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece, or who can write a book that will influence millions, deserve the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will exert influence throughout the ages long after paintings shall have faded, and books and statues shall have decayed or been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God."
— David O. McKay
http://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-david-o-mckay/chapter-16?lang=eng
"I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind."
— David O. McKay
"It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair and stifle the power of discouragement and hopelessness."
— David O. McKay http://www.lds.org/manual/a-parents-guide/chapter-6-mature-intimacy-courtship-and-marriage?lang=eng
http://www.lds.org/manual/print/eternal-marriage-student-manual/love?lang=eng
http://www.lds.org/manual/presidents-of-the-church-teacher-manual-religion-345/david-o-mckay-ninth-president-of-the-church?lang=eng
"Prayer is the pulsation of a yearning, loving heart in tune with the Infinite. It is a message of the soul sent directly to a loving Father. The language is not mere words."
— David O. McKay
http://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-david-o-mckay/chapter-8?lang=eng
"Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another."
— David O. McKay
[54]. “To have the approval of your conscience when you are alone with your thoughts is like being in the company of true and loving friends. To merit your own self-respect gives strength of character. . . . If you seek pleasure for its own sake, when you find it, it may be like a head of wheat that has been smitten by ‘smut’; but seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another” (David O. McKay, in Life’s Directions: A Series of Fireside Addresses by the General Authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1962], 7, 11).
"Always remember that a soldier’s pack is lighter than a slave’s chains."
— David O. McKay
http://thoughts.forbes.com/thoughts/war-david-o-mckay-always-remember-that
MARGARET MEAD
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead
THOMAS S. MONSON
your Heavenly Father loves you, each of you. That love never changes. It is not influenced by your parents, by your possessions, or by the amount of money you have in your bank account. It is not changed by your talents and abilities. It is simply there. It is there for you when you are sad or happy, discouraged or hopeful. God's love is there for you whether or not you deserve love. It is simply always there.
-Thomas s monson.
http://www.lds.org/broadcasts/article/general-relief-society-meeting/2013/09/we-never-walk-alone
der Vater im Himmel liebt jede Einzelne von Ihnen. Diese Liebe wird nie vergehen. Sie wird nicht davon beeinflusst, wie Sie aussehen, was Sie besitzen oder wie viel Geld Sie auf dem Konto haben. Sie ändert sich nicht durch Ihre Talente und Fähigkeiten. Sie ist ganz einfach vorhanden. Sie ist für Sie da, wenn Sie traurig oder glücklich sind, ohne Mut oder voller Hoffnung. Die Liebe Gottes ist für Sie da, ob Sie diese Liebe nun zu verdienen meinen oder nicht. Sie ist ganz einfach immer vorhanden.
http://www.lds.org/broadcasts/article/general-relief-society-meeting/2013/09/we-never-walk-alone?lang=deu
We were not placed on this earth to walk alone. What an amazing source of power, of strength, and of comfort is available to each of us. He who knows us better than we know ourselves, He who sees the larger picture and who knows the end from the beginning, has assured us that He will be there for us to provide help if we but ask.
Thomas s monson
http://www.lds.org/broadcasts/article/general-relief-society-meeting/2013/09/we-never-walk-alone
Wir sind nicht hierher auf die Erde gekommen, um allein zu sein. Welch erstaunliche Quelle der Macht, der Kraft und des Trostes doch einem jeden von uns zugänglich ist! Er, der uns besser kennt als wir uns selbst, der das Gesamtbild im Auge hat, der das Ende von Anfang an kennt, hat uns versichert, dass er für uns da ist und sich um uns kümmert, wenn wir ihn nur darum bitten.
http://www.lds.org/broadcasts/article/general-relief-society-meeting/2013/09/we-never-walk-alone?
It has been said by one, years ago, that history turns on small hinges, and so do people’s lives. Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make—for decisions determine destiny.
decisions determine destiny
Thomas s monson
http://www.lds.org/new-era/1979/11/decisions-determine-destiny
Our beloved prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, has taught: “I can’t stress too strongly that decisions determine destiny. You can’t make eternal decisions without eternal consequences.”1
Unser lieber Prophet, Präsident Thomas S. Monson, hat gesagt: „Ich kann gar nicht genug betonen, dass unsere Entscheidungen unser Schicksal bestimmen. Jede Entscheidung für die Ewigkeit zieht auch ewige Folgen nach sich.“1
http://www.lds.org/liahona/2011/11/choose-eternal-life?lang=deu
Courage becomes a living and attractive virtue when it is regarded not as a willingness to die manfully, but the determination to live decently
Thomas S. Monson
(in Conference Report, Apr. 1972, p. 72).
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1986/10/courage-counts
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1994/04/courage-to-hearken
Your Heavenly Father loves you—each of you. That love never changes. It is not influenced by your appearance, by your possessions, or by the amount of money you have in your bank account. It is not changed by your talents and abilities. It is simply there. It is there for you when you are sad or happy, discouraged or hopeful. God’s love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there.
That love never changes. … It is there for you when you are sad or happy, discouraged or hopeful. God’s love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve [it]. It is simply always there.
Thomas S. Monson
http://www.lds.org/broadcasts/article/general-relief-society-meeting/2013/09/we-never-walk-alone?lang=eng
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/like-a-broken-vessel?lang=eng
President Thomas S. Monson has asked Latter-day Saints to show increased kindness toward one another.
“We have no way of knowing when our privilege to extend a helping hand will unfold before us,”
http://www.lds.org/church/news/viewpoint-try-to-see-world-from-others-perspective?lang=eng
Thomas S. Monson
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2002/04/pathways-to-perfection?
“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa
RUSSELL M. NELSON
Education is the difference between
wishing you could help other people
and being able to help them.
-Russel m. nelson
http://www.lds.org/church/news/what-will-you-choose-elder-nelson-asks-young-adults?lang=eng
The aging process is also a gift from God, as is death. The eventual death of your mortal body is essential to God’s great plan of happiness. Why? Because death will allow your spirit to return home to Him.
russell m nelson
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/decisions-for-eternity?lang=eng&
Elder Russell M. Nelson taught that “real love for the sinner may compel courageous confrontation—not acquiescence! Real love does not support self-destructing behavior.”
Russell M. Nelson, “Teach Us Tolerance and Love,” Ensign, May 1994, 71.
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1994/04/teach-us-tolerance-and-love
An erroneous assumption could be made that if a little of something is good, a lot must be better. Not so! Overdoses of needed medication can be toxic. Boundless mercy could oppose justice. So tolerance, without limit, could lead to spineless permissiveness.
Russell m nelson
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1994/04/teach-us-tolerance-and-love
BOYD K. PACKER
It is important for a teacher or a missionary or a parent to know that the Holy Ghost can work through the Light of Christ. A teacher of gospel truths is not planting something foreign or even new into an adult or a child. Rather, the missionary or teacher is making contact with the Spirit of Christ already there.
http://www.lds.org/ensign/2005/04/the-light-of-christ
KAREE OGDEN
if i live in a house, i am grateful for
a house.
if i live in a trailer, i am grateful for a trailer.if i live in a tent or a box or under a bridge,
i am grateful for those as well.
if i live under the stars,
i am grateful for the stars and for life itself.
god gives me all that i need,
and nothing i cannot manage.
karee ogden
GRATITUDE ATTITUDE
When an attitude of gratitude
is the thing that you've begun
you'll find that more than gratitude
is the thing that you have won
gratitude begets a thinking
that is higher than the trees
it points your thoughts to heaven
and tends to bend the knees
you'll find your spirits lifted
and your feet some off the ground
when you look for every blessing
the One who blessed you will be found
-KaRee Ogden
GIVE MORE
give more
not less
not your least
give your best
-karee ogden
YOU ARE IN EVERY MOMENT
I have moments of great power and strength
such wisdom and courage
it is in those moments
that I feel your light shine through me.
I have moments of weakness
I am ashamed of my lack
you have taught me
not to wallow in the depths of my anguish
but to rise and begin my journey again
you know that I will do things
that I know I should not do
things that I know better than
you let me choose to be better
you allow me to learn from my mistakes
and then when I call out
you pick me up
dust me off
clean me up
and I radiate your light once more.
-Karee ogden
I LOVE YOU WHEN
i love you when i'm angry
i love you when you make me crazy
i love you when you're being ridiculous
i love you when i'm scowling
i love you when you're growling
i love you when i can't stand you
i love you when i think you're an idiot
i love you when i yell
i love you when you yell
i love you when you're wrong
i love you when you think i'm wrong
i love you when i am actually wrong
i love you when you're irrational
i love you when i'm furious with you
i love you when. . . and when. . .and when
i love you always. . .even when
-karee ogden
May your tears be cleansing,
Your memories be happy,
and your laughter be shared.
KaRee Ogden
nothing can stop me except my unwillingness to work for it
KaRee Ogden
I am a woman that has been pushed beyond her limits
I have seen the borders of, “i can't take this” and, “i can't do this” go whooshing by in the slow lane.
I threw my hands in the air and screamed to the world, “I quit!” but I was still standing there just as before. Trials and blessing alike still there as if I had made no dramatic declaration.
I looked up and realized that with my limits behind me, there is no ending horizon.
I have discovered that those boundaries were an illusion I created for myself. They held nothing in. They kept nothing back. When I left them, I discovered my true strength.
Outside my own fences, I am stronger than I allowed myself to be. Beyond my walls, there is no black devouring abyss. There is only more of me. So much more.
Sometimes, I still scream at the world. Then I remember how far I have come, how far outside my own borders I already stand. I look forward and laugh at the world because now I know that I have no limits!
- KaRee Ogden
L. TOM PERRY
One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.
— L. Tom Perry
PROCLAMATION FOR THE FAMILY
the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children
The Family: A Proclamation To The World
https://www.lds.org/topics/family-proclamation
LINDA S. REEVES
the Lord has a plan for each of our lives. Nothing that happens is a shock or a surprise to Him. He is all knowing and all loving.
- linda s reeves
http://www.lds.org/broadcasts/article/print/general-relief-society-meeting/2013/09/claim-the-blessings-of-your-covenants?lang=eng
http://www.lds.org/broadcasts/article/general-relief-society-meeting/2013/09/claim-the-blessings-of-your-covenants?lang=eng&query=Claim+the+Blessings+of+Your+Covenants
Is this what the Lord wants me to think about myself?
- linda s reeves
http://www.lds.org/broadcasts/article/general-relief-society-meeting/2013/09/claim-the-blessings-of-your-covenants?lang=eng&query=Claim+the+Blessings+of+Your+Covenants
FRED ROGERS
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."
— Fred Rogers -goodreads
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
GLEN L. RUDD
Think enthusiastically! Talk enthusiastically! Act enthusiastically! If you are not really enthused, act as if you are, think as if you are, and you will be!
--Glen L. Rudd
DR. SEUSS
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
ULISSES SOARES
Being meek does not mean weakness, but it does mean behaving with goodness and kindness, showing strength, serenity, healthy self-worth, and self-control.
Ulisses Soares
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/be-meek-and-lowly-of-heart?lang=eng&
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
~ St. Francis of Assisi
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis of Assisi
N. ELDON TANNER
Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you do not want to do it.
-- N. Eldon Tanner
CORRIE TEN BOOM
And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/wilt-thou-be-made-whole?lang=eng&
DIETER F. UCHDORF
The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.
Dieter f Uchdorf
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/come-join-with-us?lang=eng&clang=ase
first doubt your doubts, before you doubt your faith
Dieter F Uchdorf
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/come-join-with-us?lang=eng&clang=ase
UNKNOWN
Live in such a way so that
those who know you
but don't know Christ
will want to know Christ
because they
know you.
Author unknown
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1994/04/courage-to-hearken
TERENCE M. VINSON
a young boy was trying to smooth out the dirt area behind his house so he could play there with his cars. There was a large rock obstructing his work. The boy pushed and pulled with all his might, but no matter how hard he tried, the rock wouldn't budge. His father watched for a while, then came to his son and said, “you need to use all your strength to move a rock this large.” the boy responded, “i have used all my strength.” his father corrected him, “no, you haven’t. You haven't had my help yet.”
-Terence M. Vinson
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/10/drawing-closer-to-god?lang=eng
MARTHA WASHINGTON
The greater part of happiness depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. -
Martha Washington
S. DILWORTH YOUNG
I know that by reading about him in the scriptures I can hear his voice by the power of the Holy Ghost; that is, to read his word is to hear his voice.
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1973/04/when-i-read-i-am-there?lang=eng&query=read
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