I type in a few quotes I like on my phone so that I can read something inspiring when I'm stuck somewhere or need an emotional boost. Here's a few.
"BE OF GOOD CHEER!!!"
"Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering,
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in. "
"Behold I say unto you that great things await you!"
"The secret of leadership is simple. Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow."
"People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. What leaders do: they give people stories they can tell themselves. Stories about the future and about change." - Tribes
"Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action." 4-Hour Work Week
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved." - Victor Hugo
"On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you.
And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets into you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight.
When the canvas frays in the currach of thought and a stain of ocean blackens beneath you, may there come across the waters a path of yellow moonlight to bring you safely home.
May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours, may the fluency of the ocean be yours, may the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow wind work these words of love around yu, an invisible cloak to mind your life."
- Beannacht - Blessing
- John O'Donohue
"Here is the deepest secret nobody knows,
Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide.
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart -
I carry your heart, I carry it in my heart."
- e.e. cummings
"Upon the brow of every man God has placed the word....hope." - Victor Hugo
"Don't set sail!
Tomorrow the wind will have dropped;
And then you can go,
And I won't trouble about you."
JSH 1:59,60 - (Instead of thinking that the "them" refers to the plates, think of the "them" being your children.)
"...the same heavenly messenger delivered thm up to me with this charge: that I should be responsible for them; that if i should let them go carelessly, or through any neglect of mine, I should be cut off; but that if I would use all my endeavors to preserve them, until he, the messenger, should call for them, they should be protected.
I soon found out the reason why I had received such strict charges to keep them safe, and why it was that the messenger had said that when I had done what was required at my hand, he would call for them. For no sooner was it known that I had them, than the most strenous exertions were used to get them from me. Every stratagem that could be invented was resorted to for that purpose. The persecution became more bitter and severe than ever before and multitudes were on the alert continually to get them from me if possible. But by the wisdom of God, they remained safe in my hands, until I had accomplished by them what was required at my hand. When, according to arrangements, the messenger called for them, I delivered them up to him; and he has them in his charge until this day."
"Much more important than what you do for a living is what kind of person you become. When you leave this frail existence, what you have become will matter most." RM Nelson
"Come what may, and love it!" - Wirthlin
"No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse." - Holland
"Every step I have taken since I was a child has been to bring me closer to you."
"To find your prayers were answered - can not that be called happiness?" - Memoirs of a Geisha
"Oh, the comfort -- the inexpressible comfort
Of feeling safe with a person,
Having neither to weigh thought,
Nor measure words--but pouring them
All right out--just as they are--
Chaff and grain together--
Certain that a faithful hand will
Take and sift them--
Keep what is worth keeping--
And with the breath of kindness,
Blow the rest away."
"All have pain, but not all suffer. The body might ache, loss might occur. But for those who embrace my lifht...there is dancing!"
"...But in the gift of his Son hath God prepared a more excellent way..." - Ether 12:11
"He...made Adam according to Our image and likeness, and He left him lying for forty days and forty nights without putting breath into him. And He heaved sighs over him daily, saying, 'If I put breath into this man, he must suffer many pains.' And I said unto My Father, 'Put breath into him; I will be an advocate for him.' And My Father said unto Me, 'If I put breath into him, My Beloved Son, Thou wilt be obliged to go down into the world, and to suffer many pains for him before Thou shalt have redeemed him, and made him to come back to his primal state.' And I said unto My Father, 'Put breath into him; I will be his advocate, and I will go down into the world, and will fulfill Thy command.'" -
"Perfection Pending" - Elder Nelson - taken from coptic texts he saw in the London museum written by Timothy, Patriarch of Alexandria in A.D. 385.
"We are strongly encouraged by various scriptures to touch those within our present circle of influence rather than obsessively wishing for a larger circle." - Neal A. Maxwell
"I sing you to me." "And I will hear you." - Australia
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I love that Jessamyn is smiling down on Tia. This was just a couple of hours before she let her go, but she could still smile.
A tender moment for the two of them. Wrapped in their special blanket.
This is a unique picture with all the different elements. Tia was still long and lean at this point.
We were so glad to have wonderful Whitney here to keep us all grounded. She is amazing! Her view of our lives and what would be most helpful is phenomenal. The more I get the opportunity to be in her presence the more awed I am by her mature and compassionate spirit. Love, love, love her!!
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