"The difference between God and the devil is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the devil is to destroy."      -Brigham Young

"We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ." -Sherri L. Dew

"Give God your best, and His best will come back to you."      -Ezra Taft Benson

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."      -Oliver Goldsmith

"The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days."      -Robert Leighton

"All things are ready, if our minds be so."      -King Henry V - King Henry V, Act IV, Scene iii

"This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."      -Lord Polonius - Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii

"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."      -Harold S. Hulbert

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."     -William Wordsworth

"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."      -Samuel Johnson

"I'm not a headline guy and we may as well face it. I'm just the guy who's in there every day, the fellow who follows Babe in the batting order."      -Lou Gehrig

"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."      -Charles Baudelaire

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."      -John Ruskin

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."      -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut."      -Albert Einstein

"One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been."      -Sophocles

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."      -Malcolm S. Forbes

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."      - B.F. Skinner

"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."      -Simone Weil

"The heart is wiser than the intellect."      -Josiah Holland

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest."      -Benjamin Franklin

"Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward. A good man will endure all things to honor Christ, and even dispose of the whole world, and all in it, to save his soul."      -Joseph Smith Jr. and Hyrum Smith

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."      -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always."      -Dan Zadra

FORGIVENESS FLOUR

When I went to the door, at the whisper of a knocking,
I saw Simeon Gantner's daughter, Kathleen, standing
There, in her shawl and her shame, sent to ask
"Forgiveness Flour" for her bread. "Forgiveness Flour,"
We call it in our corner. If one has erred, one
Is sent to ask for flour of his neighbors. If they loan it
To him, that means he can stay, but if they refuse, he had
Best take himself off. I looked at Kathleen...
What a jewel of a daughter, though not much like her
Father, more's the pity. "I'll give you flour," I
Said, and went to measure it. Measuring was the rub.
If I gave too much, neighbors would think I made sin
Easy, but if I gave too little, they would label me
"Close." While I stood measuring, Joel, my husband
Came in from the mill, a great bag of flour on his
Shoulder, and seeing her there, shrinking in the
Doorway, he tossed the bag at her feet. "Here, take
All of it." And so she had flour enough for many loaves,
While I stood measuring.
      -Marguerite Stewart

"Noise proves nothing-often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."     -Mark Twain

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."      -Robert Wilensky

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."      -J.D. Salinger

"Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother."      -Agatha Christie

"Drive-thru banking was invented so cars could meet their true owners."      -Ron Picavet

"Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it."   -Will Rogers

"Venture not into the dragon's lair, for thou art crunchy and taste good with salt and vinegar."   -Huff the Tragic Dragon

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."      -Mark Twain

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."      -Lewis Carroll

"If I look confused it's because I'm thinking."      -Samuel Goldwyn

"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."      -Ed Howe

"Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained."      -John Powell

"I can imagine no more confortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation."      - W. Sommerset Maugham

"Some people approach every problem with an open mouth."      -Adlai Stevenson

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."      -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."      -Lewis Carroll

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably wind up somewhere else."      -Laurence J Peter

"Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it."      -unknown

"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."      -Malcolm Muggeridge

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."      -Abraham Lincoln

"Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty."      -Stanislaw J. Lee

"I bargained with life for a penny, only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I would have asked of life, life would have paid."

GARDENER
by Ann North

Some of the seeds of hope
Planted tentatively in the fall
Have not come up
They lie stillborn and unrealized
Somewhere in the spring soil
Decaying

The strongest and best ones
Pushed up through leaves
And layers of cold, hard resistance
Right into clear blue air
And stand there nakedly green
Breathing

It's always that way with growing things
Never knowing at the start
Which will make it and which will fail
But the thing to hold fast to
Never to lose faith in
Is simply
Sowing

"I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude."   -Brigham Young.

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.      -Colton

"It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things."      -John Logue

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."      -Jonathan Kozol

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."      -Norman Vincent Peale

"We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; amid these earthly damps what seem to us but sad, funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.      -Longfellow

"Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."      -John Charles Salak

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."      -Helen Adams Keller

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."      -Marie Curie

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."      -Albert Einstein

"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself."      -Kahlil Gibran

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once."      -Dostoyevsky

"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."      -Andr Maurois

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."      -Michel de Montaigne

"To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people, and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics, and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
To know that even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
      -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Gratitude is sister to Humility, and Pride is foe to both."      -James E. Talmage

"Gratitude is the beginning of greatness."     -James E. Faust

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all."     -Thomas Jefferson

"'Tis better to buy a small bouquet
And give to your friend this very day,
Than a bushel of roses white and red
To lay on his coffin after he's dead."      -Anonymous

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."      -Marcus Aurelius

"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."      -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."      -Latin proverb

"Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled."      -The Hitopadesa

"Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life."      - William James

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out."      -Macaulay

"Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."      -Thomas Jefferson

"Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day."      -Camus

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."      -Aldous Huxley

"Good and evil both increase at compund interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance."      -C.S. Lewis

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."      -Woodrow Wilson

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."      -Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Leadership is action, not position."      -Donald McGannon

"Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were, and say, 'Why not?'"      -George Bernard Shaw

"The most dangerous thing in the world is to leap a chasm in two jumps."      -David Lloyd George

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."      -Edmund Burke

"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."      -Thomas Jefferson

"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men."      -Abraham Lincoln

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality."      -Dante

"If you always give you will always have."      -Chinese Proverb

"Life is the childhood of our immortality."      -Goethe

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."      -Helen Adams Keller

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."      -Alexander Woollcott

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

"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness."      -Joseph Campbell

"Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing."      -Helen Adams Keller

"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."      -Spencer Silver, the inventor of Post-it Notepads

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."      -Dorothy Nevill

"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."      -Heraclitus, Greek philosopher

"Be not simply good-be good for something."      Henry David Thoreau

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."      -Mother Teresa

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."      -Henri Bergson

"Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good."      -Albert Schweitzer

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."      -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"Goodness is the only investment which never fails."      -Henry David Thoreau

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."      -George Orwell

"If fortune turns against you even jelly will break your tooth."      -Persian Proverb

"We make a living by what we do. We make a life by what we give."      -Winston Churchill

"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth."      -Chinese proverb

"We shall never cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."      -T.S. Eliot

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."      -Helen Adams Keller

"Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying."      -Christian Furchtegott Gellert

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."      -Mark Twain

"Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be."      -Abraham Lincoln

"The way I see it, if you want a rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."      Dolly Parton

"Be the change you want to see in the world."      -Mahatma Gandhi

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."      -Henry Ford and my dad

"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."      -Socrates

"You can't touch pitch and not get mucked."      -Long John Silver

"Most putts don’t drop. Most beef is tough. Most chidlren grow up to be just people. Most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration.
Most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is 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."      -Jenkins Lloyd Jones

"Do not praise yourself, do not slander others:
There are still many days to go and anything could happen."      -Kabir

"Punctuality is the politeness of kings."      -Louis XVIII

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."      -Bertrand Russell

"Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you."      -Horace

"To see things in the seed, that is genius."      -Lao-tzu

"One should count each day a separate life."      -Marcus Arelius

"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 Adams Keller

"When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion."      -Ethiopian proverb

"I like simple, if it's complex then I don't understand it."      -Seymour Cray, inventor of the Cray supercomputer

"Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow."      -Alice M. Swaim

"Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed."      -Booker T. Washington