Coincidences

There are no coincidences in life.The Lord puts us in places 

where we need to be to touch others.  - Suzanne Stanton

Family

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.  

Desmond Tutu

Service

 When we serve we rule. When we give we have. 

We are most ourselves when we lose sight of ourselves.  

- Cardinal Newman

Hope

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.  

- Martin Luther King

God's Love

It is simply there. It is there for you when you are sad or happy,
 discouraged or hopeful. 

God’s love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love.  

President Thomas S. Monson

Happiness

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp, 

but which is you will sit down quietly will light upon you.  - Hawthorne

Courage

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which 

guarantees all the others.  - Winston Churchill

Aim High

Aim at the sun, you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you aimed 
at an object on level with yourself.  - J. Hawe

Believe

My belief is stronger than your doubt. - Dwayne Wade 

Warning Voice

God does not send thunder if a still small voice is enough. - Neal A. Maxwell

Courage

Courage is not just being brave.  

It’s daring to do what is right despite the weakness of our own flesh. 

New Beginning

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can 

start today and make a new ending.  - Maria Robinson

Success

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself . . . 

Every step of our progress toward success is a sacrifice.  

- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

America

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, 

it will be because we destroyed ourselves

 - Abraham Lincoln

Think of Others

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other.  

- George Eliot

Jesus Christ

What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't 

follow in his footsteps?   Author Unknown

                 

Education

The only thing more costly than education is ignorance.  - Unknown

Balance

 The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you've lost it. 

- Anonymous

Future

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect 

them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow 

connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, 

karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, 

and it has made all the difference in my life.    - Steve Jobs

Harvest

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.  

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Rules

You have to learn the rules of the game. 

And then you have to play better than anyone else.

- Albert Einstein

Problems

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide 

your problems are your own. 

You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. 

You realize that you control your own destiny.  - Albert Ellis 

Obstacles

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. -Molière

Second Chances

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, 

never too sick to start from scratch once again. 

- Bikram Choudhury

Simplicity

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius

Obstacles

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity.

True Beauty

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, 

but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed 

only if there is a light from within.  

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Talents

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no 

birds sang there except those that sang best. 

- Henry Van Dyke

Path of Life

By choosing our path, we choose our Destination.   - Monson

The Bible

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments 

as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations 

because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

- Helen Keller