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Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones. - Proverbs 16:24

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

Do good to them that hate you. - Matthew 5:44

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison

Be the change that you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in God like I believe in the sunrise. Not because I can see it, but because I can see all that it touches. - C. S. Lewis

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live every day as if it were your last. - Irish Proverb

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. - Psalm 145:3

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own (will), is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. - Apostle Paul

Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love or full of fear. - Albert Einstein

God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. - John 3:16

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. - Normal Vincent Peale

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. - Maori Proverb

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. - Albus Dumbledore

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. - Abraham Lincoln

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worth while. So when you're lonely remember it's true: somebody somewhere is thinking of you. - Unknown

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. - Psalm 69:30

You cannot teach a man everything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo

For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. - John 13:15

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world. - Anne Frank

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. - Unknown

Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart. - Charles Dickens

Only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it. - D. H. Lawrence

We can do no great things; only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa

Opportunity is missed by most of us because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. - Albert Einstein

And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them. - Ether 12:27

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. - Proverbs 4:23

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. - Henry Miller

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue principles unto death. - Thomas Paine

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love and His kindness go on forever. - Chronicles 16:34

If ye love me, keep my commandments. - John 14:15

I have not failed, I've found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison

Lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin.

Yea, behold I do not fear your power nor your authority, but it is my God whom I fear; and it is according to his commandments that I do take my sword to defend the cause of my country... - Alma 60:28