Insights from Mother Teresa:

"One thing will always secure heaven for us --

the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives."

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."

Thanksgiving Quotes

If you did not get a chance to read this article by 
Linda and Richard Eyre, it is great! 

It has many quotes on gratitude and giving thanks. Here is the link:

Quotes-to-enhance-the-Thanksgiving-holiday.html

 Pres. Henry B. Eyring's gave a great General Conference talk about how 

he started a journal to recognize the Lord's hand in his life. 

It is a great gratitude talk! Here is the link:

lds.org/general-conference/2007/10/o-remember-remember 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Proper Habits of Speech

"Our language reveals our thoughts, our virtues, our insecurities, our doubts, even the homes from which we come. We will feel more comfortable in Heavenly Father's presence 

if we have developed proper habits of speech."

-Elder Douglas L. Callister, "Our Refined Heavenly Home", BYU Magazine, Winter 2007, p. 46.

Talent and Taste

"Let us...show to the world that we have talent and taste, and prove to the heavens that our minds are set on beauty and true excellence, so that we can become worthy to enjoy the society of angels." -Pres.. Brigham Young

 Elder Douglas L. Callister adds to this quote:  
"Even more, that we may enjoy the refined society of heavenly parentage, for we are of the race of the gods, being children of the Most High." ("Our Refined Heavenly Home", BYU Magazine, Winter 2007, p. 50.)

Our Heavenly Home

"I don't know whether our heavenly home

has a television set or a DVD player,

but in my mind's imagery it surely 

has a grand piano and a magnificent library."

-Elder Douglas L. Callister, "Our Refined Heavenly Home", BYU Magazine, Winter 2007, p. 47.

Refinement of Spirit

"The nearer we get to God, 
the more easily our spirits are touched 
by refined and beautiful things."

-Elder Douglas L. Callister, "Our Refined Heavenly Home," BYU Magazine, Winter 2007, p. 45.

I Really Lived!

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car,

wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, 

perfectly manicured fingernails.
I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels

from taking kids to scout camp.
I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt 

from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.
I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails 

from helping to weed someone's garden.
I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks 

and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.
I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Have a Good Laugh!

" 'Elder Neal A. Maxwell once said, 'We are here in mortality, and the only way to go is through; there isn't any around!' (Ensign, May 1998, 9). I would add, the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."

-Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Small and Simple Things, 2003, p. 126

A Perfect Brightness of Hope

"A few years ago, I was with my noble 97-year-old grandmother. As she sat curled in her wheelchair, weak and nearly blind, she talked quietly of her life. I said: “This is a wicked world. There are so many temptations and challenges. Is it possible to stay worthy and return to our Heavenly Father?” She slowly raised herself tall and erect and said in a commanding voice: “Yes! You must! That’s why you’re here!” Thank you, Grandma, for teaching me about hope."

Julie B. Beck, "There Is Hope Smiling Brightly before Us", Ensign, May 2003, 103–5