"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

"The first great commandment of all eternity is to love God with all of our heart, might, mind, and strength - that's the first great commandment.  But the first great truth of all eternity is that God loves us with all of His heart, might, mind, and strength."

-Jeffrey R. Holland

Tomorrow the Lord Will Do Wonders Among You

LDS General Conference, April 2016

"I urge you to find ways to recognize and remember God's kindness . . .Tonight, and tomorrow night, you might pray and ponder, asking the questions:  Did God send a message that was just for me?  Did I see His hand in my life? . . . I testify that He loves us and blesses us, more than most of us have yet recognized."

-Henry B. Eyring
How to See and Remember God's Kindness, New Era, August 2011

“I had spent a lot of time figuring out who I was, shaping myself, creating an identity and I thought that identity was something inside of me that I projected outward and when I was suddenly in a world in which nobody knew me and nobody understood me and all those things, I started to realize that who we are is actually reflected back to us by the people around us, by people who love us.

“You are suddenly in a world where nobody understands why you’re there or what you’re doing or who you are - you suddenly start to ask the same questions.

“So I was basically widdled down to nothing.  I felt like I had no self.  The beauty of that – there’s a lesson there, right?  There’s this lesson – that our connections matter, that how we treat others matters, that it affects their identity directly.  And there’s another lesson there as well.  As I lost myself, I actually found myself broken down to a point where I could learn faster than I’ve ever learned in my life."

-Michael Wesch

The End of Wonder in the Age of Whatever

BYU Speeches

"What if our only motive were love?  What if everything we did, we did out of love?"

-Russell T. Osguthorpe
BYU Devotional, 8 March 2011

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

-Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

"I have found the paradox:  that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

-Mother Teresa
Come Be My Light