"We must have the courage to be imperfect while striving for perfection." 

-Patricia Holland

"We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes to unfold in our lives, on His timetable."
-Neal A. Maxwell

"I am sure God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait."
- C.S. Lewis

You don't have to be pretty.

"You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female.'" 

-Erin McKean 

Please God

"A Church leader whom I highly regard told me recently that in his earlier days he was preoccupied with trying to please the people of this Church until in utter fatigue and confusion he decided instead to focus on pleasing God, letting God then worry about pleasing the people. This decision freed him to be who he really was and to find powers he didn't know he had. He said, 'For the first time in my life I saw clearly my own divine potential.' " 
-Patricia T. Holland, "An Eye Single"

Patience.

"Patience—the ability to put our desires on hold for a time—is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it now. Therefore, the very idea of patience may seem unpleasant and, at times, bitter.'Nevertheless, without patience, we cannot please God; we cannot become perfect.'" 

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Continue in Patience"

A lesson on forgiveness

 Warning: This will make you cry. But in a good way.

Thank goodness for the Gospel of Jesus Christ which helps us to change!

You can be my sister.

"I was practicing the piano one day, and it made me cry because it was so bad. Then I decided to practice ballet, and it made me cry more; it was bad, too. So then I decided to draw a picture because I knew I could do that good, but it was horrid. Of course it made me cry.

"Then my little three-year-old brother came up, and I said, 'Duffy, what can I be? What can I be? I can't be a piano player or an artist or a ballet girl. What can I be?' 

"He came up to me and whispered, 'You can be my sister.'" 

-Mary Holland, at age 7

The life that is waiting for us

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
-E.M. Forester

"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