favorite quotes

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.
—Neal A. Maxwell

You don't have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles. . . . You carry within you the power to make the world better.
—Sharon G. Larsen

The strength of any community lies in the strength of its families. The strength of any nation lies in the strength of its families. Strong family life comes of strong and clear religious understanding of who we are, and why we are here, and of what we may eternally become. Strong family life comes of the perception that each of us is a child of God, born with a divine birthright, and with a great and significant potential. Strong family life comes of parents who love and respect one another, and who love and respect and nurture their children in the ways of the Lord. These are undergirding principles of our teachings as a church. To the degree that we observe these teachings we build strong families whose generations will strengthen the nation.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. The mother who, in compliance with eternal law, brings into the world an immortal spirit occupies first rank in the realm of creation.
—Improvement Era, 1953


Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
—Dr. Seuss

A housewife’s work . . . is the one for which all others exist.
—C.S. Lewis

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks so is he. —Publilius Syrus, Maxim 1073

Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort.
—Gordon B. Hinckley

Humor is falling downstairs if you do it while in the act of warning your wife not to.
—Kenneth Bird

If I tell you I love you will you stay forever?
—Casper

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is not saying.

Your voice makes me tremble inside,
And your smile is an invitation
For my imagination to go wild.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
—Jules Renard

Real love is not measured in terms of moonlight and roses, but in terms of who will care for you when you are old.
—Russell M. Nelson

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: “It might have been!”
—John Greenleaf Whittier, “Maud Muller”

I have been asked what I mean by word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls—walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground—there is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape, but stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No, never! I'd die first!
—Karl G. Maeser

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