“Progress, and improve upon and make beautiful everything around you.
Cultivate the earth, and cultivate your minds. Build cities, adorn your
habitations, make gardens, orchards, and vineyards, and render the earth
so pleasant that when you look upon your labors you may do so with
pleasure, and that angels may delight to come and visit your beautiful
locations. In the mean time continually seek to adorn your minds with
all the graces of the Spirit of Christ.”
Brigham Young
"Gracias,
danke, merci whatever language is spoken, 'thank you' frequently
expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift
your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There
is a simplicity even a sincerity when 'thank you' is spoken." - Thomas S. Monson
"Today, there are three kinds of people: the have's, the have-not's, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's." - Earl Wilson
"Children
are like trees. When they are young, their lives can be shaped and
directed, usually with ever so little effort. Said the writer of
Proverbs, 'Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,
he will not depart from it' (22:6). That training finds its roots in
the home. There will be little of help from other sources. Do not depend
on government to help in this darkening situation. Barbara Bush, wife
of former United States president George Bush, spoke wisely when in
Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1990 she addressed the Wellesley College
graduating class and said, 'Your success as a family, our success as
society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what
happens inside your house.' " - Gordon B. Hinckley
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Service
to others deepens and sweetens this life while we are preparing to live
in a better world. It is by serving that we learn to serve. When we are
engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist
them, but we put our own problems in a fresher perspective. When we
concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned
with ourselves! In the midst of the miracle of serving, there is the
promise of Jesus that by losing ourselves, we find ourselves!" - Spencer
W. Kimball
“God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.” - Henry B. Eyring
"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." - Diana, Princess of Wales
“How I
admire men, women, and children who know how to work! How the Lord loves
the laborer! He said, ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,’
and ‘The laborer is worthy of his hire.’ He also gave a promise: ‘Thrust
in your sickle with all your soul, and your sins are forgiven you.’
Those who are unafraid to roll up their sleeves and lose themselves in
the pursuit of worthwhile goals are a blessing to their families,
communities, nations, and to the Church.” - Dieter F. Uchtdorf
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Lee Frost
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” - John F. Kennedy
"I say
that we need to teach our people to find their answers in the
scriptures...But the unfortunate thing is that so many of us are not
reading the scriptures. We do not know what is in them, and therefore we
speculate about things that we ought to have found in the scriptures
themselves. I think that therein is one of our biggest dangers of
today." - Harold B. Lee
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." - Mother Teresa
“The
battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but
always a better person. Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best;
too many of us want it to be effortless and painless. Should temporary
setbacks afflict us, a very significant part of our struggle for
self-discipline is the determination and the courage to try
again....Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal, and
self-discipline will surely be required if you are to achieve it.”
- Thomas S. Monson
“Hope
is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune
without the words and never stops at all.” - Emily Dickinson
"Please
don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far
beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best
way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort." - Gordon B.
Hinckley
"A
garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness;
it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust."
- Gertrude Jekyll
"If I
fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the
victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without
spending three hours daily in prayer." - Martin Luther
“It
is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It
is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are to be
more than sanctuaries; they should also be places where God’s Spirit can
dwell, where the storm stops at the door, where love reigns and peace
dwells.” – Thomas S. Monson
