"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

ALONG THE ROAD

by Robert Browning Hamilton

I walked a mile with Pleasure;

She chattered all the way,

But left me none the wiser

For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow

And ne'er a word said she;

But oh, the things I learned from her

When Sorrow walked with me!

A Zen master and his students were walking in the forest and they came across a large boulder. 

On seeing that, the master asked his students, "Is this boulder heavy?"

"Yes," they replied, "it is very heavy."

The Zen master asked, "Are you sure?"

The students looked at it again and said of course it's very heavy.

And with that, the master replied, "Only if you pick it up."

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 "Whatever Jesus lays his hands upon lives.  If Jesus lays his hands upon a marriage, it lives.  If he is allowed to lay his hands on the family, it lives."

-Howard W. Hunter, Reading the Scriptures

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."

-Stephen R. Covey 

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?  Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

-T.S. Eliot, The Rock

 "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them."

-Gandhi

 "Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.  Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be."

-Goethe

 "That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

 "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

-Goethe

 "That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.  It is dearness only which gives everything its value.  Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods."

-Thomas Paine 

 "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

-Albert Einstein

 "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

-Francis of Assisi

"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

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

-Marianne Williamson
A Return to Love:  Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

"Life's most persistent and urgent questions is, What are you doing for others?"

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I am like a pencil in [God's] hand.  That is all.  He does the thinking.  He does the writing.  The pencil has nothing to do with it.  The pencil has only to be allowed to be used."

-Mother Teresa

"There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit."

-Ronald Reagan