"If we ask ourselves what we desire the most in life, the most common answers would be:  love, happiness, peace, and power. What we want to experience is what we need to create in response to every scene. For only when we create it, can we experience it and radiate it into the world."

-BK Shivani, The Power of One Thought

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

-Abraham Lincoln

"I meet so many people who constantly complain about the burden of their responsibilities.  Of course the pressures are great.  There is much, too much, to do . . .Turn your thinking around.  The gospel is good news.  Man is that he might have joy. Be happy!  Let that happiness shine through your faces and speak through your testimonies. . . 

"I enjoy these words of Jenkins Lloyd Jones . . .

"'Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed.

"'Most putts don't drop.  Most beef is tough.  Most children grow up to be just people.  Most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration.  Most jobs are more often dull than otherwise.

"'Life is like an old-time rail journey - delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed.

"'The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.' (Deseret News, June 12, 1973)"

-Gordon B. Hinkley, Four Imperitives for Religious Educators  15 September 1978

"Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed."

Doctrine & Covenants 123:17

“Life offers you two precious gifts—one is time, the other freedom of choice, the freedom to buy with your time what you will. You are free to exchange your allotment of time for thrills. You may trade it for base desires. You may invest it in greed. …

“Yours is the freedom to choose. But these are no bargains, for in them you find no lasting satisfaction.

“Every day, every hour, every minute of your span of mortal years must sometime be accounted for. And it is in this life that you walk by faith and prove yourself able to choose good over evil, right over wrong, enduring happiness over mere amusement. And your eternal reward will be according to your choosing.

“A prophet of God has said: ‘Men are that they might have joy’—a joy that includes a fullness of life, a life dedicated to service, to love and harmony in the home, and the fruits of honest toil—an acceptance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ—of its requirements and commandments.

“Only in these will you find true happiness, the happiness which doesn’t fade with the lights and the music and the crowds.” 

^{Man's Search for Happiness (pamphlet, 1969), 4-5}

^{(Quote found in D. Todd Christofferson's talk, Reflections on a Consecrated Life)}