"I feel there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

-Vincent Van Gogh

“Grow old along with me! 

The best is yet to be, 

the last of life, for which the first was made. 

Our times are in his hand who saith, 

'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; 

Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!'”

-Robert Barret Browning

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
-e.e. cummings

Thanks for believing in me, honey. I love you :]

(Read about him here.)

“Just remember that the legacy is passed from heart to heart. Charity, the pure love of Christ, is part of the mighty change of heart which the Lord promises to His faithful disciples. So it is not hard to see what simple things you can and must do to pass the legacy along.” 
- Henry B. Eyring

"What attribute should define us as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? Let us be known as a people who love God with all our heart, soul, and mind and who love our neighbor as ourselves."

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Favorite Quotes from Last Weekend's Regional Conference

"When it comes to eternal progression, we must not rely on our long-term memory." 

-Elder Steven E. Snow

"You're doing better than you think you are!" 

-Sister Julie B. Beck

"If we could call upon the faith that Heavenly Father has promised, we could be doing better than we are." 

-Sister Julie B. Beck 

"The Spirit is key to knowing the mind and the will of our Heavenly Father." 

-Sister Julie B. Beck 

 "Miracles are happening and available for those who have enough faith in the Lord."

-Sister Julie B. Beck  

"Testimonies should be simple and deep, not complex and superficial."

-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

"When we find ourselves failing, there is someone around to lift us up."

-President Boyd K. Packer

"Go play with the children!"

-Elder Richard G. Scott

"When you live the commandments of Jesus Christ, you qualify for the guidance of the Lord."

-Elder Richard G. Scott

"To love another righteously is to protect, to elevate, to revere, to respect."

-Elder Richard G. Scott

"Marriage enables you to really find out who you are."

-Elder Richard G. Scott

What do you enjoy from Regional Conference?

"No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity."
-Neal A. Maxwell

"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God."

-Karen Freeman

It lights the whole sky.

Image found here.

"Rarely is anyone criticized into changing, but they just might be loved and appreciated into changing." 

-John Bytheway

Those Winter Sundays

Those Winter Sundays
by Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?  Thanks for all those winter Sundays, Mom and Dad. I love you.

Witness God's love

"I believe that the best way to be a witness of the beauty of God’s laws is to also witness of His deep, abiding, eternal love."

-Emily Milner

"We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity, when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense the dancers are free, barely touching, as they pass, but partners in the same pattern."

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh