A Parent's Promise...

 

Calm an Adgitated Soul...

Scriptures can calm an agitated soul, giving peace, hope, and a restoration of confidence in one’s ability to overcome the challenges of life.

-Richard G. Scott

The Pain We Face…

The Savior is not a silent observer. He Himself knows personally and infinitely the pain we face.

-Kent F. Richards, Of the Seventy

No Pain We Suffer…

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude, and humility. … It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire.”

-Orson F. Whitney

I Am Rich…

"I am not heartsick because I am rich and they are poor."
"We're not rich, Papa. We're..."
"Yes we are boy. We have one another to tend to, and this land to tend. And one day we'll own it outright. We have Solomon here to wind up a capstan and help us haul our burdens. (...) We have Daisy's hot milk. We got rain to wash up with, to get the grime off us. We can look at sundown and see it all, so that it wets the eye and hastens the heart. We hear all the music that's in the wind, so much music that it itches my feet to start tapping. Just like a fiddle."

-Robert Newton Peck, “A Day No Pigs Would Die”

Now and Then…

“Yes, people get around faster than they used to, but I don’t think they’re any happier.”

“You know how it is raising kids. You find out they’re alive, and then you want to kill ‘em.”

Jim May, “The Farm on Nippersink Creek”

Death

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

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

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

Home is our Family...

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Our home is our family, not our possessions.

-Christina Gregory, Dear America Series: Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie

Problems...

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"You can't talk yourself out of problems you behave yourself into."
-- Stephen Covey

Pray for the Love...

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I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.

-Henry B. Eyring