Erase from your vocabulary the word “someday.” Do not save things for “special occasions.” Take into account the fact that every day is special. Every day is a gift that we must appreciate and be thankful for. Wear your attractive clothes, wear your nice perfume, use your fine silverware and dishes, and drink from your expensive crystal glasses … just because. Live every day to the fullest and savor every minute of it.
Well,’ you may ask, ‘how may I know when I am in love?’ . . . George Q. Morris [who later became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, gave this reply]: ‘My mother once said that if you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to achieve, who inspires you to do your best, and to make the most of yourself, such a young woman is worthy of your love and is awakening love in your heart.
You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.
Friendship is thinking of the other person first.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view--and feel exalted--and your eyes are full of happy tears--and you want to sing--and wish you had wings! And then--you can't stay there, but must continue your journey--you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.
Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.
Free yourself from the burden of feeling the need to hold on to anything. Let go… you are a part of everything.
Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.
Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.
Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either. There's both sweet and sour in every day. So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful? Concentrate on the good.
Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life
All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.
... too much brooding, not enough doing.
Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life
The secret to happiness is the journey, not the destination.
The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.
What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.