"Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope."
— James E. Faust

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
— Robert Frost

"The best way out is always through."
— Robert Frost

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
— Abraham Lincoln

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes)

"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

"It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?"
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes)

"Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity."
— Neal A Maxwell

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
— Albert Pike

"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good."
— W.H. Auden (Selected Poems)

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."
— Norman Maclean (A River Runs Through It and Other Stories)

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family"
— Anthony Brandt

"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."
— L.M. Montgomery

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."
— Neal A. Maxwell

"Embrace change. True success can be defined by your ablilty to adapt to changing circumstances."
— Connie Sky

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in."
— Morrie Schwartz

"If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward."
— Morrie Schwartz

"Okay. The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air-until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore. "My God, this is terrible," the wave says. "Look what's going to happen to me!"
Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and it says to him, "Why do you look so sad?"
The first wave says, "You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't it terrible?"
The second wave says, "No, you don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.""
— Morrie Schwartz

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear."
— Meg Cabot

"There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is “not this day.”...The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. We will weep, and He will weep, if we have intended to repent and to serve Him in tomorrows which never came or have dreamt of yesterdays where the opportunity to act was past. This day is a precious gift of God. The thought “Someday I will” can be a thief of the opportunities of time and the blessings of eternity."
— Henry B. Eyring

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

"To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."
— Louisa May Alcott

""If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead."
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— Neal A. Maxwell

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
— C.S. Lewis

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
— C.S. Lewis

"Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."
— C.S. Lewis

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
— C.S. Lewis

"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."
— C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)

"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."
— C.S. Lewis

"The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power."
— Spencer W. Kimball

"We learn to do by doing."
— Spencer W. Kimball

"Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich."
— Spencer W. Kimball