“If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you tell a lie, it becomes a part of your future.” – Unknown

“If you surround yourself with clowns, don’t be surprised if your life becomes a circus.” – Unknown

“Perhaps the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.” – Warsan Shire

“There is no such thing as being fearless.” – David Williams

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” – Alphonse Karr

“This is the meaning of the Master’s cryptic phrase: ‘Lose yourself…and find yourself.’ Expand your caring to include all carings and you begin to overcome destructive selfishness.” – Truman Madsen

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.” – Fred Rogers

“Light makes right.” – Shaun Roundy

“People are inherently good, but not inherently mature.” – Shaun Roundy

“The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism… The haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.” – Hugh Nibley

“We can try to shine on our own, but we’ll never know whether we’re succeeding until we compare our light to God’s. Until then, we only have limited, flawed measuring sticks. Until we see the perfect light, we have no idea how brilliant we can become.” – Shaun Roundy

“Don’t be afraid to rise above the norm. That’s the only way the norm will ever rise!” – Shaun Roundy

“Evil people often don’t realize that they’re evil. They don’t recognize what “evil” means. They justify selfish actions as reasonable, and don’t notice or care that they hurt others unnecessarily. A degree of darkness exists in every life, every mind, every heart. Our job is to love, accept, forgive, support, celebrate, delight, and shine so brilliantly that others learn to distinguish the darkness from light.” – Shaun Roundy

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“You are a leader if, and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with the status quo… As a leader, you are never satisfied with the present, because in your head you can see a better future, and the friction between ‘what is’ and ‘what could be’ burns you, stirs you up, propels you forward. This is leadership.” – Marcus Buckingham

“As we learn to use our time wisely, we learn that diligence is more important than intelligence.” – Don Clarke

“Believe in the opportunities that lie ahead. I am reminded of what Abraham Lincoln said when he sat on the sidelines for a long time, losing election after election and struggling to make a professional contribution. He said simply, ‘I will prepare, and perhaps my chance will come.’ He lived long enough to learn what everyone learns—that chance always favors the prepared life.” – Howard Hunter

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.” – Paulo Coelho

“Your two core fears are: 1. The fear of failure (the fear you won’t be good enough) and 2. The fear of loss (the fear your life won’t be good enough). The fear of failure is about feeling insulted, unloved, unvalued, unappreciated or unwanted. The fear of loss is a fear that you won’t have what you need, want or deserve, so you feel mistreated, cheated, robbed, short-changed or taken from at some level.”- Kim Giles

“You realize that on that small spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you. All of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it on that little spot out there.” – Russell Schweickart, Apollo 9 astronaut

“We fight our most brutal battles entirely within the deepest confines of our own minds in a place where nobody else, however compassionate or well-meaning, can come close to reaching. Friends can cheer you on, people who love you can show their concern and affection constantly…in the end, it doesn’t matter, you’re still alone. If you can’t save yourself, it can’t be saved. I wish I’d realized this sooner, it would’ve saved me years of grief.” – Kirt Manwaring

“We plan, prepare, and perform positively, then something else happens. We get to start over. That’s life. Being surprised and starting over. It isn’t what we thought it should be, or would be- so we get to think again.” – Paul Jenkins

“Setbacks will happen, disappointments happen, but your dream still exists. Say to yourself, ‘It’s not over until I win! ‘ Never give up on yourself.” – Les Brown

“Create your own reality by choosing your future.” – Les Brown

“Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” -LeRoy Washington

“I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self security. Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.” – Brigham Young

“He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.” – Brigham Young

“The highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, self-actualization, is actually connected to the lowest level, group survival. People experience their highest joy in helping their neighbors make it through the day.” – David Brooks

“How cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!” – C.S. Lewis

“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,” said Aslan. “And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.” – C.S. Lewis

“God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.” – C.S. Lewis

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.” – C.S. Lewis

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” – C.S. Lewis

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” – C.S. Lewis

“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.” – C.S. Lewis

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis

“Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.” – C.S. Lewis

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.” – C.S. Lewis

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” – C.S. Lewis