"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 

"Satan has a powerful tool to use against good people. It is distraction. He would have good people fill life with good things so there is no room for the essential ones."

-Richard G. Scott

"Patience:  A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue." 

-Ambrose Bierce

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

-John Quincy Adams

“Patience and fortitude conquer all things."

-Benjamin Franklin

"Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates."  

 

-A. Lawrence Lowell

"What leads Christians home -- good actions or faith in Christ? Its like asking which blade of the scissors is most necessary."

-C.S. Lewis

"The more righteous a people become the more they are qualified for loving others and rendering them happy. A wicked man can have but little love for his wife; while a righteous man, being filled with the love of God, is sure to manifest this heavenly attribute in every thought and feeling of his heart, and in every word and deed. Love, joy, and innocence will radiate from his very countenance, and be expressed in every look. This will beget confidence in the wife of his bosom, and she will love him in return; for love begets love; happiness imparts happiness; and these heaven born emotions will continue to increase more and more, until they are perfected and glorified in all the fulness of eternal love itself.”

-Elder Orson Pratt

“Perfect love is perfectly patient.” 

-Elder Neal A. Maxwell

“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery. He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.” 

-Thornton Wilder