Create
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before . . . Creation brings forth satisfaction and fulfillment.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Gratitude
“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.”
— Henry Van Dyke
The human eye is able to recognize more variation in the color green than in any other color. Its energy contains: harmony, sympathy, health, abundance, balance, growth and expansion.
— Unknown
Honesty
“Be truthful. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
— Mark Twain
Kindness
“It is easier to raise a man from the dead than to erase a word you have said.”
— English Proverb
Green in the prime color of the world, and that from which it’s loveliness arises.
— Unknown
Courage
“Things without remedy should be without regard.”
— William Shakespeare
“Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
— C.S. Lewis
Friday is the day of Green.
— 17th Century Spanish writer, Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Prayer
“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Spirituality
“No influence is more powerful than that of “a righteous woman who understand who she is and who can hear the voice of the Spirit.”
— Sheri Dew
Don’t be so Heavenly bound that you’re no Earthly good.
— Unknown
Leadership
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we knew we could be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity
“It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself that determines how your life story will develop.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Light
“The broken will always be able to love harder than most. Once you’ve been in the dark, you learn to appreciate everything that shines.”
— Matt Townsend
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
— Albus Dumbledore
“I think our Heavenly Father spends all kinds of time opening doors for us, and it’s our challenge to be… brave enough to go through them.”
~ Aaron Allred
Gratitude
“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you are to have even more to express gratitude for.”
~ Zig Ziglar
Charity
“Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are.”
~ Thomas S. Monson
His Power
“When you spiritually stretch beyond anything you have ever done before, then His power will flow into you.”
~ Russell M. Nelson
Never Defeated
“We are never defeated unless we give up on God.”
~ Ronald Reagan
“Don’t feel bad if people remember you only when they need you. Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their mind when there is darkness. ”
The Past
“The past is to be learned from but not lived in.”
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Heaven
“On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.”
~ Jules Renard
Persevere
“None of us is perfect. Accept the reality that you’re going to stumble at times. You will fall. But you will rise again. Don’t give up on yourself. Your Father in Heaven certainly won’t.”
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Spiritual Power
“There is not one great and grand thing we can do to arm ourselves spiritually. True spiritual power lies in numerous smaller acts woven together in a fabric of spiritual fortification that protects and shields from all evil.
~ M. Russell Ballard
“Your growing faith in Him will move mountains – not the mountains of rock that beautify the earth – but the mountains of misery in your lives. Your flourishing faith will help you turn challenges into unparalleled growth and opportunity.”
Father
“The best and greatest partner you will ever have is your Father in Heaven.”
~ Timothy J. Dyches
Goals
“Goals are stars to steer by, not sticks to beat yourself with.”
~ Barbara B. Smith
Goodness
“There is no limit to the amount of good a person can do, if they don’t care who gets the credit.”
~ Warren Miller
Meaning & Purpose
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
~ William Shakespeare
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
Success
“Success is not final, Failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
~ Winston Churchill
Light
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Light-Bringer
“Make the choice to be a light-bringer to dark places.”
~ Chieko Okazaki
Danger
“The danger is that Satan is dimming our light so slowly that darkness seems normal.”
~ Neal A. Maxwell
The Flame
“At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
~ Albert Schweitzer
“Of the many blessings that have come to me through my knowledge of Christ’s gospel, I am most grateful for the doctrine that teaches us that our lives here have eternal meaning and are for the glory of God. We are central in His great work. He teaches that as we receive His light, we can reflect that light in the world.”
Love
“Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.”
~ Brene’ Brown
The Light
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
~ Aristotle
“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”
~ Theodore Roethke
“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
“If you fear the unknown, or worse yet, deny your gifts and your responsibilities, I admonish you to put aside your fear or your thoughts of self, replace these with love and prepare NOW to give a little bit of yourself in the service of your God.”
~ Elen Belnap
“Nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal, fervent prayer and its heaven-sent response.”
~ Thomas S. Monson
“To every man, there comes in his lifetime that special moment when he is tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique and fitted to his talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared and unqualified for the work that would be his finest hour.”
~ Winston Churchill 1874-1965
“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.”
~ Henry Van Dyke
“If you want to give a light to others, you have to glow yourself.”
~ Thomas S. Monson
“No one can fall lower than the light of Christ shines.”
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
“A man can live in the dark for a period, but the time will come where he will long to come into the light.”
~ O. Vincent Haleck
“Never suppress a generous thought.”
~ Camilla E. Kimball
“God’s light is real, it is available to all. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound.”
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”
~ Brene Brown
“Good friends are like stars, you don’t always see them but you know they’re always there.”
~ Anonymous
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
~ Art Linkletter
“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
~ Roald Dahl
“To love beauty is to see light.”
~ Victor Hugo
“The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.”
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
“Kindness is loaning someone your strength instead of reminding them of their weakness.”
~ Hank Smith
“If you have to choose to be kind or be right, choose to be kind, and then you’ll always be right.”
~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“Be a smoother and a maker, not a mover and a shaker.”
~ Boyd Beagley
“One shoe really can change your life.”
~ Cinderella
“Live in such a way that those who know you, but don’t know God, will come to know God because they know you.”
~ Anonymous
“Being happy doesn’t mean everything’s perfect. It means you decide to see beyond the imperfections.” ~ Anonymous
“Live in such a way that if anyone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.”
~ Anonymous
“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”
~ Alice Walker
“It is no small thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”
~ Charles Dickens
“You have to understand what you can change and what you cannot. No amount of wishing or weeping will change the past. It is set in stone. The future is what you can shape, the future is open to your creation, the future can fill you with faith, excitement and hope.”
“Think Celestial - I have learned that Heavenly Father’s Plan for us is fabulous, that what we do in this life really matters, and that the Savior’s Atonement is what makes our Father’s plan possible. ”
