Wednesday, March 30, 2011

For all you introverts out there...

"The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, "Gift From the Sea"

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Where is Wisdom?

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
-T.S. Eliot  

Also quoted in this Mormon Message

Monday, March 28, 2011

On Pride and Self-Esteem

"The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough. Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.' If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men’s, we will have self-esteem."
-President Ezra Taft Benson, "Beware of Pride"

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

We do not obtain our heavenly reward by punching a time clock. What is essential is that our labors in the workplace of the Lord have caused us to become something." 
-Elder Dallin H. Oaks, "The Challenge to Become"

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

"God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer." 
-Justin Bieber
(ironically)

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

“This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world. She who can paint a masterpiece or write a book that will influence millions deserves the admiration and the plaudits of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters, whose influence will be felt through generations to come, . . . deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God.”
-David O. McKay

Friday, March 11, 2011

"Happiness and work rise up together with the sun, radiant like it."
-Paul Gauguin

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

"Church may at times, seem like an echo chamber, but just as the challenges of life repeat themselves, so must the Master’s teachings."
-Elder Neal A. Maxwell

Monday, March 7, 2011

Look for Christ

"Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
-C.S. Lewis

Thursday, March 3, 2011

"God helps me - that's what I think, and then I am calm."
-Carl Heinrich Bloch

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Dating and Discipleship

"You want capability, safety, and security in dating and romance, in married life and eternity? Be a true disciple of Jesus. Be a genuine, committed, word-and-deed Latter-day Saint. Believe that your faith has everything to do with your romance, because it does. You separate dating from discipleship at your peril."
-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, "How Do I Love Thee?"