words to live by.

• "I don't want to be famous or popular or known for anything other than that I was deep and wise and had a soul that was wildly beautiful, full of mercy and light." - Jen Lemen

• "Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five." -Benjamin Franklin

• "Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all." - D.L. Moody

• "When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps." - John Lennon

• "Mostly what God does is loves you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious, but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us, but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that." -Anonymous 

• "Be true to who you are (a son or a daughter of God) and to the family name you bear."- President Gordon B. Hinckley 

•  "Make every obstacle an opportunity." -Marjorie Pay Hinckley

•  "One day in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." -Sigmund Freud 

• "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
• Don't be afraid of change, you may end up losing something good, but probably gain something better."
• "The better person you become, the better person you will attract." 

•  "One of the greatest blessings is to be able to be happy even when things aren't going the way we planned."

•  "Three things are needed for a good life: good friends, good food, and a good song."

• "There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something you accept no excuses; only results."

• "Sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You've got to wonder why we cling to our expectations because the expected is just what keeps us steady, standing still. The expected is just the beginning. The unexpected is what changes our lives." -Grey's Anatomy

• "If you want to know where you heart is, look to where your mind wanders." 

• "I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday." 

• "What's for you, won't pass you by." -Lillian Breed 

• "A year from now, you will wish you would have started today.." 

• "When something bad happens, you have three choices.You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you."  

• "Your journey has molded you for the greater good. It was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now and NOW IS THE RIGHT TIME." - Asha Tyson 

• "Don't confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy doesn't mean you aren't headed for sunshine."

• "The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now." -President Gordon B. Hinckley 

• "Be patient and tough, someday this pain will be useful to you." - Ovid 

• "Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn." 

• "Do things with passion, or not at all. Wherever you go, go with all your heart." 

• "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not people or things." 

• "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." 

• "It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be." 

• "There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those." 

• "I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we will never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there." 

• "Let go, let God." 

• "When you change, the things you look at change." 

• "Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are." - James Allen 

• "It only hurts til the pain goes away." 

• "The power behind you is greater than the problem before you." 

• "View others not as they are, but by what they can become." 

• "Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words." -Calvin & Hobbes 

• "Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process." -Alexandra Stoddard  

• "Why is Monday so far from Friday and Friday is so near to Monday?" 

• "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt 

• "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart." 

• "You'll never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be." 

• "I have so much to do that I am going to bed." 

• "It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." -W. Somerset Maugham  

• "Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

• "Forgive them, even if they are not sorry." 

• "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

• "She turned her cants into cans and her dreams into plans..." 

• "It's not what you do, its how you do it. It's not what you see, it's how you look at it. It's not how your life is, its how you live it." 

• "Don't get discouraged. It is often the lost key that opens the lock." 

• "I resolve to laugh everyday. Eat more chocolate. Sleep in. Make dinner an event. Breathe more deeply. Spend more time with the people I love." 

• "The secret to having it all is believing that you do." 

• "If for awhile the hard you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived." -Elder Jeffery R. Holland 

• "Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't even come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come." - Elder Jeffery R. Holland 

• "God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, he expects you not simply to face the future; he expects you to embrace and shape the future--to live it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities." -Elder Jeffery R. Holland 

• "The Lord will shape the back to bear the burden placed upon it." -President Thomas S. Monson 

• "It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It will all work out. If you do your best, it will all work out. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us.. If we put our trust in him, if we will pray to him, if we will live worth of his blessings, he will hear our prayers." -President Gordon B. Hinckley