Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Testimony


"The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it.
Let us be prepared." - Thomas S. Monson

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Battles



"I ask not for any crown

But that which all may win;

Nor try to conquer any world

Except the one within." - Lousia May Alcott

Friday, February 8, 2008

Proactive




"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness


To Be Happy

You’ve got to be straight to be happy,
You’ve got to be square as a die.
Through wrong may come infinite pleasures,
But they fade, and they fly.
You’ve got to take life at its noblest
If you want to have gladness that counts,
Want the verve and the zeal of the spirit
That lifts you along as it mounts.

And, Oh! how it pays out of goodness
To draw for each day as we strive
Some measures of clean, healthy gladness,
In our work, and for being alive!
You’ve got to be true to be happy,
Be true to yourself over all,
And be blind to the lure of evil,
And deaf to its powerful call.

To set up high standards and keep them,
With the records so straight and so true,
For nothing can ever condemn them,
If that is your creed, it will do.
You’ve got to be clean to be happy,
You’ve got to be steadfast and pure
If you want what fife gives that is earnest,
That will help, and will hold, and endure.

(Baltimore Sun)