"Time doesn't make pain hurt less. Time doesn't heal all wounds. But time does give you the opportunity to get to know yourself and your significant other on another level than most. When you all have to rely on is communication your relationship has nothing to do but grow. Take advantage of your disadvantage."

Strength

"Latter Day Saint women who recognize that their strength comes from the Lord's Atonement do not give up during difficult and discouraging times."

Julie B. Beck

"We can contemplate how far we have already come in the climb along the pathway to perfection; it is usually much further than we acknowledge, and such reflections restore resolve...

...We can allow for the reality that God is still more concerned with growth than with geography...

This is a gospel of grand expectations, but God's grace is sufficient for each of us if we remember that there are no instant Christians."

-Neal A. Maxwell

An Informal Prayer

"The proper way for a man to pray,"
Said Deacon Lemuel Keyes,

"and the only proper attitude
Is down upon his knees."

"Nay, I should say the way to pray,"
Said Reverend Dr. Wise,

"Is standing straight with outstretched arms
and rapt and upturned eyes."

"Oh, no, no, no," Said Elder Snow;
"Such posture is too proud.

"A man should pray with eyes fast closed
and head contritely bowed."

"It seems to me his hands should be
Austerely clasped in front.

With both thumbs point toward the ground,"
Said Reverend Dr. Hunt.

"Las' year I feel in Hodgkin's well
Head first," said Cyrus Brown,

"With both my heels a-striken' up,
My head a-p'inting down;

An' I made a prayer right then an' there;
Best prayer I ever said;

The prayingest prayer I ever prayed;
a-standin' on my head."

Mosiah 18:21

"And he commanded them that there should be no contention one with another, but that they should love forward with one eye, having one faith and one baptism, having their hearts knit together in unity and in love one towards another."

Mosiah 18:21

Teenage Dreams

It's not enough to have a dream
unless I'm willing to pursue it-

It's not enough to know what's right
unless I'm strong enough to do it-

It's not enough to join the crowd,
to be acknowledged and accepted-
I must be true to my ideals, even if
I'm left out and rejected-

It's not enough to learn the truth
unless I also learn to live it-

It's not enough to reach for love
unless I care enough to give it.

-Anonymous

"You are not just ordinary young women. You are choice spirits, many of you having been held back in reserve for almost 6,000 years to come forth in this day, at this time when the temptations, responsibilities, and opportunities are the very greatest...

"...I pray that you--the young and rising generation--will keep your bodies and minds clean, free from the condemnations of the world, that you will be fit and pure vessels to bear off the kingdom of God triumphant in preparation for the second coming of our Savior."

-President Ezra Taft Benson