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"

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?"

"We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others."
-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." 
- Bill Cosby

"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.)

"Those who drive steamrollers should know who they are."
-Monica Hymas

Watching with Hope

"Perhaps watching can be painful at times, because I must acknowledge that time is passing - but not because, once passed, it's forever gone. Just like the sand that slips from the top of the globe to the glass floor below, it is not spilled or lost. It is stored.

My dad has always said that his favorite age for his children is the one they are at. I like that thought. To me, that is watching with hope.

Watching the change, and seeing what's not changing.

Watching it pass, and knowing it's not leaving.

Tasting every bite, but believing in God's everlasting covenant that the meal never ends. The food is perishable, yes, but there is more to come. And all of it, ingested, becomes a part of me." 

-Emily Halverson, "The Mother in Me"

Untied Shoelaces

"When great individuals move so marvelously on the straight & narrow, it's unseemly to call attention to untied shoelaces"
-Neal A. Maxwell

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?

There are no Ordinary People

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splendors....Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat, the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden."

-C.S. Lewis

"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