Free to Choose

“Yours is the freedom to choose. But these are no bargains, for in them you find no lasting satisfaction.

“Every day, every hour, every minute of your span of mortal years must sometime be accounted for. And it is in this life that you walk by faith and prove yourself able to choose good over evil, right over wrong, enduring happiness over mere amusement. And your eternal reward will be according to your choosing.

“A prophet of God has said: ‘Men are that they might have joy’—a joy that includes a fullness of life, a life dedicated to service, to love and harmony in the home, and the fruits of honest toil—an acceptance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ—of its requirements and commandments.

“Only in these will you find true happiness, the happiness which doesn’t fade with the lights and the music and the crowds.”

~ Elder Richard L. Evans in Man's Search for Happiness

Link to Conference Talk

Don't take life to seriously, no one gets out alive.

I just couldn't help but post this. Ya, we are here to prepare to meet God, but sometimes taking life too seriously only weighs us down. Enjoy life, see the good, and by all means BE HAPPY!

Change It

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit

Be of Good Cheer

"My beloved brothers and sisters, fear not. Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith."
- President Thomas S. Monson (Conference April '09)

This whole talk was amazing!! If I am having a down day there is nothing like the positive attitude of the prophet to bring me back up. Click below to read his whole talk.
Whole Talk

Love For Others

"Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself."
-Paramabansa Yogananda

Marilyn Ferguson

"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal."

Our Gift

Our life is God's gift to us, what we do with it is our gift to him.

D&C 64:13

". . . continue in patience until ye are perfected."

I really need to remember this. I am not expected to be perfect all at once. But be patient with myself and others until I am.

Elaine Dalton (October 2008, General Conference)

"With the strength of the Lord I can do all things."

I wanted to add to this my testimony that through the Lord I CAN do ALL things!! I know it and I have felt his strength when mine fails.

Dallin H. Oaks

"Don't treasure up past wrongs, reprocessing them again and again. In a marriage relationship, festering is destructive; forgiving is divine (see D&C 64:9–10). Plead for the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord to forgive wrongs, to overcome faults, and to strengthen relationships.
". . . we should realize that a good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection."

~Elder Dallin H. Oaks (April 2007, General Conference)

Abraham Lincoln

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Maya Angelou

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.