Laughter

The best kind of pain = laughing till your stomach hurts!

Christmas is Love

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. It is peace because we have found peace in the Savior's teachings. It is the time we realize most deeply that the more love is expended, the more there is of it for others.

~Thomas S. Monson
   First Presidency Devotional, December 2012

Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song) Sung by Amy Grant

Intelligence

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
~Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
   theoretical physicist, philosopher, Nobel Prize winner

Laughter

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.

~Josh Billings (1818-1885)
  [Henry Wheeler Shaw] humorist, essayist

Our Potential

Our Heavenly Father sees our real potential. He knows things about us that we do not know about ourselves. He prompts us during our lifetime to fulfill the measure of our creation, to live a good life, and to return to His presence.
~Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The Little Things...

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
~Robert Brault (born 1938)
  American Writer

Love and Happiness

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
~Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
  Novelist, short story author, essayist, screenwriter

Excellence

The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.
~Terry Orlick

Theme

The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means you can invent the language to say who you are and what you mean.
~Toni Morrison (born 1931)
   author, editor, professor, Nobel Prize winner, Pulitzer Prize winner

Don't Fear...

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. 

The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: 

could have, might have and should have.

~Louise E. Boone (born 1941)

  Author

Success

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~Ralf Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
  Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist

An Attitude of Gratitude

A grateful heart, then, comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives. This requires conscious effort--at least until we have truly learned and cultivated an attitude of gratitude.
~Thomas S. Monson
   "The Divine Gift of Gratitude"

Music

Music enters our bodies, commandeering the pulse in our veins, and reminding us that pleasure isn't a matter of feeling good but of feeling more alive.
~Holly Brubach
   Journalist

Love

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
~ Robert Heinlein

What will you choose to be like?

People are often unreasonable, irrational, 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 unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

~Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
  founder of the Missionaries of Charity

What will you become?

Watch your thoughts they become your words.

Watch your words they become your actions.

Watch your actions they become your habit.

Watch your habits they become your character.

Watch your character it becomes your destiny.

~Frank Outlaw

What is happiness to you?

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck (1905-1956)
   Author

Because He Lives

Change

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
  American theologian

The Holy Ghost

The gift of the Holy Ghost, if you consent, will guide and protect you and even correct your actions. It is a spiritual voice that comes into the mind as a thought or a feeling put into your heart....It is not expected that you go through life without making mistakes, but you will not make a major mistake without first being warned by the promptings of the Spirit. This promise applies to all members of the church.
~Boyd K. Packer

Greatness

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

~Mark Twain (1835-1910)
   [Samuel Clemens] humorist, essayist, novelist

Dreams

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

~Wilma Rudolph (1940-1944)
  Athlete; Olympic Gold Medalist

In That Holy Place

Success

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
~Sophia Loren (born 1934)
             Actress

Myself

I have to live with myself, and so

I want to be fit for myself to know,

I want to be able as days go by

Always look myself straight in the eye,

I don't want to stand with the setting sun

And hate myself for the things I've done.

I want to go out with my head erect,

I want to deserve all men's respect,

While in the struggle for fame and pelf

I want to be able to like myself.

I don't want to look at myself and know

That I'm bluster and bluff and an empty show

I never can fool myself; and so

Whatever happens, I want to be

Self-respecting and conscious-free.

~Edgar A. Guest

The Call from Narnia

What thinks Christ of Me?

I testify that as you love Him, trust Him, believe Him, and follow Him, you will feel his love and approval as you ask, 'What thinks Christ of me?' you will know that you are His disciple; you are His friend. By His grace He will do for you what you cannot do for yourself.
~Elder Neil L. Andersen

Doors

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
  (1847-1922)
  Inventor

Being Stronger

We only have one life to live so we have to live it the best we can. Things in life may knock us down but it is our strength that builds us back up. Never give up and never give up on your life. It's beautiful.
~Enhance Dream quotes

You cannot always wait for the perfect time, sometimes you must dare to jump. Life is all about risks and it requires you to jump. Don't be a person who has to look back and wonder what they would or could have had. No one waits forever.
~Don Kel

Next time you're stressed, take a step back, inhale and laugh. Be strong, love yourself, and love others. Remember, just keep moving forward.
~Unknown

Dream Big

-All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
          ~T. E. Lawrence

-All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
          ~Walt Disney

-All men of action are dreamers.
          ~James Huneker

-Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
          ~Victor Hugo

-Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
          ~Harriet Tubman

-Dreams pass into the reality of action. From actions stem the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
          ~Anais Nin

-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

-To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
          ~Anatole France

-Don't give up...

-Dreams...

Excellence

Excellence is never an accident; it is the result of high intent, sincere effort, intelligent direction, skillful execution and the vision to see obstacles as opportunities.
~Anonymous

They Might Not Need Me

They might not need me; but they might.

I'll let my head be just in sight;

A smile as small as mine might be

Precisely their necessity.

~Emily Dickinson

Being a Light

If you want to give light to others, you must glow yourself.

~President Thomas S. Monson

Believing in Christ

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
~John 11:25-26

On Life

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The choice is how.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Do What is Right

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
~Mark Twain (1835-1910)
   humorist, essayist, novelist

Accomplishments

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
~Louis "Lou" Holtz (born 1937)
           American Football Coach

Success

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
~George S. Patton (1885-1945)
   American General in World War I and II

Kindness

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
~ Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
    Philosopher, Physician, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Women of God

Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.

~Margaret Nadauld

Five Eternal Truths

To the Singles of the Church

1. The Lord loves us, answers prayers and delights in blessing individuals who keep His commandments, but He does so in His own time and in His own way.

2. We are not saved in isolation.

3. We are responsible for becoming the best disciples of Christ we can become.

4. Learn to know the whisperings of the Holy Ghost.

5. Single adults should remain active members in the church.

~Sister  Kristen Oakes

Living Life

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
~Gordon B. Hinckley

Laugh, Love, Life

To laugh often and love much: To win respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; To earn the approbation of honest critics And endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To give one's self; To leave the world a little better, Whether by a healthy child, A garden patch, Or redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed with enthusiasm And sung with exultation; To know even one life has breathed easier Because you have lived... This is to have succeeded.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happines is...

Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object.
~Herman Hesse (1877-1962);
  Writer, 1946 Prize in Literature recipient

Reading is like Flying...

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquires.”
~A.C. Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Albert Manguel)

Quotes on Life by David O. McKay

What-e're thou art,

Act well thy part.

-Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.

-All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power. Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it.

-In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life's journey.

-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.

-Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love; every brave suffering for the right; every surrender of self to something higher than self; every loyalty to an ideal; every unselfish devotion to principle; every helpfulness to humanity; every act of self-control; every fine courage of the soul, undefeated by pretense or policy, but by being, doing, and living of good for the very good's sake--that is spirituality.

-What a man thinks about when he doesn't have to think is really what he is. What a man does in his spare time when nobody is watching is literally who he is.

Cake

This little cake is cute, and yummy too!

Just Haven't Met You Yet...

When it Comes to Me, Wouldn't Want to Be Anybody Else!

One Person

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
~R. Buchminster Fuller (1895-1983); architect, engineer, inventor

James M. Barrie (author of Peter Pan) Quotes

-Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

-If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

-Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

-Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
~Peter Pan

-Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

-The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

-It's not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

-Love is not bling; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

-Life is a long lesson in humility.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Valentine's Day Gift Box Surprise

Love Quote:
May the love hidden deep inside your heart, find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow, wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.
~The Highwayman of Tanglewood by Marcia Lynn McClure

Inspirational Quotes

A TRUE FRIEND is one who is willing to take us THE WAY WE ARE but still able to leave us BETTER than he found us.
~Marvin J. Ashton


There is no such thing as a SMALL ACT of KINDNESS.
~Marjory Pay Hinckley

Happily Ever After

Quote of the Day

Life is about laughing and living, in good and bad times.
Getting through whatever comes our way and looking back and smiling.
~Unknown

Quote of the Day

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
~James Barrie author of Peter Pan