"When

 one door closes another door opens; but we do often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." – Alexander Graham Bell

You...

 cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi

In

the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."

- Deepak Chopra

Nothing

is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

Henry Ford

How

far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these. "

George Washington Carver

If

I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''

Wayne Dyer

How

people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."

- Wayne Dyer

Life

is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Ashley Smith Robinson
American Author and Speaker

Life's

not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.

~Cherralea Morgen

One

of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.

John O'Donohue:

I

never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.

Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996

Mortality

" is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order to be tested, we must sometimes face challenges and difficulties. At times there appears to be no light at the tunnel’s end—no dawn to break the night’s darkness. We feel surrounded by the pain of broken hearts, the disappointment of shattered dreams, and the despair of vanished hopes. We join in uttering the biblical plea “Is there no balm in Gilead?” We are inclined to view our own personal misfortunes through the distorted prism of pessimism. We feel abandoned, heartbroken, alone. If you find yourself in such a situation, I plead with you to turn to our Heavenly Father in faith. He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face."

--Thomas S. Monson, "Looking Back and Moving Forward", Ensign, May 2008, 87–90

Friendship

is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

Please

" don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort."--

Gordon B. Hinckley, "Rise to the Stature of the Divine within You," Ensign, Nov. 1989, 94

I

" think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance and hatred. There is so great a need for repentance and forgiveness. It is the great principle emphasized in all of scripture, both ancient and modern. Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way."

--Gordon B. Hinckley, "Forgiveness," Ensign, Nov. 2005, 81

There

" is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless."

--James E. Faust, "The Refiner's Fire," Ensign, May 1979,

"one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. "

C. S. Lewis

The

"worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."

- Jim Rohn

Attitudes

" are contagious. Are yours worth catching?"

- Dennis and Wendy Mannering

Do

" something wonderful, people may imitate it."

- Albert Schweitzer