Favorite Quotes

Recently I've been collecting a smattering of my favorite quotes 'cause lets face it...we could all use an encouraging word now and again. Below are some of mine...Feel free to post some of yours. I would love to read them!

No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout.
And it is not always granted unto the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
-Albert Schweitzer


Black is beauty in its deepest form,
The darkest cloud in a thunderstorm.
Think of what starlight
And lamplight would lack
Diamonds and fireflies
If they couldn't lean against Black...
-Mary O'Neill

Miracles do not always need to happen all at once

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well...
-Antoine de Saint Exupery

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
-Paulo Coelho

Time is purple
Just before night
When most people
Turn on the light--
But if you don't it's
A beautiful sight.
-Mary O'Neill

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.
-Elder Neal A Maxwell

I heard John Taylor preach in the Tabernacle one of the most heavenly discourses ever spoken, upon the principle of Jesus Christ being in man a well of living water. If people will live to the light they have, and to every manifestation from God, they will arrive at such a state of perfection that God will dwell in them a well of everlasting life—a fountain of living water that will dispense life wherever they go. Whatever they do, every act, thought, and word will be full of life, and they will grow into eternal lives in the kingdoms of our God. It is your privilege to so live that you are constantly filled with the light of revelation, that Jesus Christ may be within you as a fountain of living water continually springing forth and yielding life eternal
-Brigham Young

Every beautiful moment in my life has also been imperfect and everything that has been painful has brought me to a better understanding of what beauty and truth truly are

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.
-Nelson Mandela

Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.
-Elder Maxwell