"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

"You have not failed until you quit trying."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

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

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"A house without books is like a room without windows."
— Horace Mann

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

"Love is a better master than duty."
— Albert Einstein

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
— Mark Twain

"Discretion is the better part of valor."
— William Shakespeare

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Angry people are not always wise."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort."
— Jane Austen

"Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just like people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"This too shall pass..."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

"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

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
— Albert Einstein

"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."
— C.S. Lewis

"The mind is its own place, and in itself
can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.-Atticus Finch"
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need ever be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings."
— Dorothy Emily Stevenson (Listening Valley)