Don't Procrastinate

Where's the good in putting things off? Strike while the iron is hot.
-Charles Dickens

The Country...

Photo: Ben Romney, Europe

If you think the country is quiet, you've never lived in it. Tree frogs alone make you wish for earplugs.

-Sue Monk Kidd, from "The Secret Life of Bees"

Death

Photo: Ben Romney, Europe

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

-Sue Monk Kidd, from "The Secret Life of Bees"

Qualifying for the Lord's Spirit...

"Qualifying for the Lord's Spirit begins with a desire for that Spirit and implies a certain degree of worthiness. Keeping the commandments, repenting, and renewing covenants made at baptism lead to the blessing of always having the Lord's Spirit with us."

Julie B. Beck, "And upon the Handmaids in Those Days Will I Pour Out My Spirit," Ensign, May 2010, 11

Dost thou love life?

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
-Ben Franklin

Slow Down, Ponder, and Pray...

Planning Ahead...

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life… But where no plan is laid… chaos will soon reign.
-Victor Hugo

Your Gloom is Gone...

“When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go to him and find out what the trouble is, then try to remove it with the wisdom which the Lord bestows upon you; and the first thing you know, your gloom is gone, you feel light, the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, and everything seems illuminated.”

-President Lorenzo Snow

Tomorrow is a new day...

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you will begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson