A Great Resolution to Make!

"Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys." 

- Rita Schiano 

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A Beautiful Place

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal away your sweetness. Take pride that even though the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."
~Kurt Vonnegut

Living Positively

You can’t live a positive life with a negative mind.

Smile

"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile."

Celebrate Others Successes

Promise yourself today to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. 

-Christian D. Larson

The Best is Yet to Come

What a WONDERFUL thought it is that some of the BEST DAYS of our lives HAVEN'T HAPPENED YET.

~Unknown

Better Things are Ahead

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind." 

~C .S. Lewis

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Enjoy the Sunshine

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you will never enjoy the sunshine."

~ Morris West

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Looking Up

May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.

Sara June Parker

Looking at the Stars

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Oscar Wilde

I recently read this quote and really liked it. None of us can say we have had a trial free life, we've all had them, and will continue to have them, the perspective we should have though should be a hopeful one, silver linings always rear their pretty heads when trials abound, and really can be seen as often as we look for them.

Application for today: If you're feeling 'in the gutter', look for the stars in your life until you find them

Straight to the Point:)

"You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice"

- Gordon B. Hinckley

Negativity

"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."

Shirley MacLaine

So don't.

Wake Up

"Like the elephant, we are unconscious of our own strength. When it comes to understanding the power we have to make a difference in our own lives, we might as well be asleep. If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up. Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do, and say." 

-Keith Ellis-

You Control Your Destiny

Elder Ballard:

"You control to a large degree your own destiny. You control your own life. Some of you might cop out by saying, “Well, Brother Ballard, you just don’t understand my environment. You just don’t understand my circumstances. You just don’t understand what kind of a father I have, or what kind of a mother I have, or what kind of a this or that.”

“No,” I would say to you, “put all of that in the back of your minds and bring forward to the front of your mind the worthy goals that you want to obtain. Then practice personal self-discipline.”

Benjamin N. Woodson had some good things to say about self-discipline:

“For my part, I have concluded that the quality which sets one man apart from another—the factor which lifts one man to every achievement to which he reasonably aspires while the other is caught in the slough of mediocrity for all the years of his life—is not talent, nor formal education, nor luck, nor intellectual brilliance, but is rather the successful man’s greater capacity for self-discipline.”

Mr. Woodson offers a great suggestion:

“All you need to do is this: Beginning this very day, stop doing some one thing you know you should not do.” After you have written this one thing down, stop doing it!

Some of you will have the necessary self-discipline and courage to do this. Others of you will just sit here and say, “Oh boy.” You won’t pay any attention to it, and so a month from now you will still be dragging behind you the same habit that is holding you back from being your best self.

A few of you will stop doing that one thing today. Why? Because you are going to write it down and then you are going to discipline yourself in such a way that you are going to take a problem out of your life."

(M. Russell Ballard, “Go for It!,” New Era, Mar 2004, 4)

Commit This To Memory!

“Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end."

(then just keep repeating it, until you believe it:)

Inspirational Quotes - Imagine

Some great quotes for you today:

When Are You Going To Really Live?

I read this somewhere (but I don't remember where) and copied it down. Hope you like it:

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"I am discovering that many people want, above all else, to live life fully. But sometimes the past prohibits our living and enjoying life to the utmost in the present. A schoolteacher entered his room a few minutes early and noticed a mealworm laboriously crawling along the floor. It had somehow been injured. The back part of the worm was dead and dried up, but still attached to the front, living part by just a thin thread. As the teacher studied the strange sight of a poor worm pulling its dead half across the floor, a little girl ran in and noticed it there. Picking it up, she said, "Oh, Oscar, when are you going to lose that dead part so you can really live?" What a marvelous question for all of us! When are we going to lose that dead part so we can really live? When are we going to let go of past pain so we can live fully? When are we going to drop the baggage of needless guilt - guilt over things we have been forgiven for or need never have felt guilty for - so we can experience life? When are we going to let go of that past resentment so we can know peace? Have you been dragging something that is dead and gone around with you? Are you ready to "lose that dead part so you can really live"?

Alfred D. Souza said, "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, and a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

So stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off , until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your ship comes in or your song comes on, until you've had a drink, until you've sobered up, until you've got it all done, until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy......Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

Thought for the day: Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching.

Be Kind

"Be one who nurtures and who builds. Be one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart, who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them. If we could look into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently..."

(Marvin J. Ashton, Ensign, May 1992)

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"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

"Wherefore, be not weary in well–doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great.

(Ephesians 4:32; D&C 64:33)

Nova Scotia Discouragement

The Prophet Joseph Smith declared:

"Never get discouraged. . . . If I was sunk in the lowest pit of Nova Scotia and all the Rocky Mountains piled on top of me, I'd . . . hang on, exercise faith and keep up good courage and I should come out on the top."
(George A. Smith, Memoirs of George A. Smith, pp.81-82.)

What a Day!

Neal A. Maxwell:

“One's life is brevity compared to eternity- like being dropped off by a parent for a day at school. But what a day!”

(Ensign, Nov.1985)

“This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it"

(Psalms 118:24)

Seeing as how we do have a choice about how we feel about our day, we may aswell choose gladness!