Quotes....

The other night I had told Ron that I wanted to come up with a Family Creed. Something that we could memorize and that our kids could always remember and help us all remember what we hope our family will represent. We decided to look up some of our favorite quotes and write them down and then decide what we want to put into our creed. It was a lot of fun and I really felt the spirit as we just read these simple one liners. It made me realize how much these simple quotes have changed my life. Anyway, we have not come up with our family creed or motto or whatever you want to call it yet, but I decided to have a post with all of my favorite quotes on it. These are a few and I will add more.

"We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more." - Bruce C Hafen

"If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don’t expose it to the elements. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by." - F Burton Howard

"Hal, I wasn't there for the weeds"- Henry Eyring

"Learn to laugh at the incongruity of your own predicament. Who has more predicament than someone who is giving much and not receiving much in return?" - Henry B. Eyring

"If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead."
— Neal A. Maxwell

"If various trials are allotted to you, partake of life's bitter cups but without becoming bitter." - Neil A. Maxwell

"no misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse."- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

"I'm not giving you these experiences for yourself. Write them down." - Elder Henry B. Eyring

"When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time."
— Neal A. Maxwell

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess, wrote:

It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.

For the test of the heart is trouble,
And it always comes with the years,
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth
Is the smile that shines through tears

"Even if and when we seem to have squeezed out the last full measure of our devotion, an omniscient and perfectly empathic God not only knows the difficulties through which we have passed and are passing but also knows if any residue of unused devotion still remains to further the process!" -Elder Maxwell

“The noblest aim in life is to strive … to make other lives … happier.” (In Conference Report, Apr. 1961, p. 131.

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity! -Elder Maxwell

Ensign, May 1978, pp. 10–11.

Let me here say a word to console the feelings … of all who belong to this Church. Many of the sisters grieve because they are not blessed with offspring. You will see the time when you will have millions of children around you. If you are faithful to your covenants, you will be mothers of nations. … and when you have assisted in peopling one earth, there are millions of earths still in the course of creation. And when they have endured a thousand million times longer than this earth, it is only as it were the beginning of your creations. Be faithful, and if you are not blest with children in this time, you will be hereafter.” (In Journal of Discourses, 8:208.)