Do Good Continually

In the time we have it is surely our duty to

do all the good we can

to all the people we can

in all the ways we can.

~William Barclay (1907-1978)

   Scottish Author, Professor

When life gives you lemons... ... make lemonade!

"Cease your complaining and fretting. The cause is in yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy. ...Alter your outlook on life, and your outward life will alter."
~James Allen

Check out Alex Boye's song "Lemonade" based off of the proverbial phrase: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865607001/Alex-Boye-says-You-can-be-bitter-or-better-in-new-feel-good-video-about-making-lemonade.html

Your life...

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone elses' life.

Don't be trapped by dogmaa- which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Don't Let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary.

~Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

  Co Founder Apple Inc.

Sad or Happy

If you want to be sad, no one

in the world can make you be happy.

But if you make up your mind

to be happy, no one and nothing on earth

can take that happiness from you.

~Paramhansa Yogananda

author of Autobiography of Yogi

Don't Give Up

Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off. But never, ever, ever give up.

~Richelle E. Goodrich
  author

Hopes and Dreams

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams reality.

~Jonas Salk

Hardships

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

~C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
   writer, theologian, scholar

Happiness

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves.  It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of the fire.  Happiness is something we are.

~John B. Sheerin

The Journey

Your journey has molded you for the greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be.  Don't think that you've lost time.  It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now.  And now is right on time.

~Asha Tyson (born 1970)
  writer, public speaker

Home

Where we love is home.  Home that the feet may leave, but not our hearts.

~Olliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)

   writer, physician

Be the Best Within You

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

Think only of the best, work for only the best, and expect only the best.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!

~Christen D. Larson

New Thought Leader

Falling Down

Fallig down is part of life.  Getting back up is living.

~Unknown

Success

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

~Colin Powell (born 1937)
   65th U.S. Secretary of State

The Joys of Life

Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.

~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  writer

Challenges in Life

Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously.  Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life.  You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously.  You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

~Swami Sivananda (1887-1963)
   spiritual leader, author, physician

Accomplishments

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

~Anatole France (1844-1924)
   critic, writer

Real Love

I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love.  You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help.  There is no mistaking love...it is the common fiber of life, the flame that heals our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives.
~Elizabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004)
  Psychiatrist

Life...

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.  I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious give I have--life itself.

~Walter Anderson (1903-1965)
   American Artist

Believe

God is anxiously waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as He always has. But He can't if you don't pray, and He can't if you don't dream. In short, He can't if you don't believe.
~Jeffrey R. Holland
  Terror, Triumph and the Wedding Feast

Highlights from The Desert Song