"Our search for happiness largely depends on the degree of righteousness we attain, the degree of selflessness we acquire, the amount and quality of service we render, and the inner peace that we enjoy." 

-James E. Faust

Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve. Is that faith? Yes! Is that hope? Yes! Is that charity? Yes! Above all, it is charity, the pure love of Christ. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. Don’t keep going back with your little sand pail and beach shovel to dig it up, wave it around, and then throw it at someone, saying, “Hey! Do you remember this?” Splat!

Well, guess what? That is probably going to result in some ugly morsel being dug up out of your landfill with the reply, “Yeah, I remember it. Do you remember this?” Splat.

And soon enough everyone comes out of that exchange dirty and muddy and unhappy and hurt, when what our Father in Heaven pleads for is cleanliness and kindness and happiness and healing.

-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

" 'Being in love' first moves us to promise fidelity: a quieter love enables us to keep the promise."

-C.S. Lewis

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. 

-French Proverb

"Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."

-C.S. Lewis

"Patience [is] far more than waiting for something to happen. Patience [requires] actively working towards worthwhile goals and not getting discouraged when results [don't] appear instantly or without effort."

"Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can—working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!"


-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, 
is not an act -- but a habit."
-Aristotle

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without 

springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

-Henry Ward Beecher