Just Some Quotes I Have Collected Recently

Toula Portokalos: [narration] My family is big and loud but they're my family. We fight and we laugh and yes, we roast lamb on a spit in the front yard. And where ever I go, what ever I do they will always be there. (From the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding - written and starred in by Nia Vardalos)

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong

To live and not learn is not living;
To learn and not understand is not learning;
To understand and not do is not understanding.
Chinese Proverb Quoted in "The Challenge: Basing Your Career on Principles" by Alexander B. Morrison. Life in the Law, 2004, 93.

Leadership Lesson from the Boston Philharmonic

Benjamin Zander, founder and conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, shared a revelation that had come to him as he was conducting his orchestra. It happened many years into his career. As he stood in front of the orchestra with his baton raised, Zander suddenly realized that he, the conductor, makes no sound. Although it was his picture and name on CD’s, Albums, and posters announcing the concerts, he realized that he makes none of the music himself, not a sound. He then realized that his job, as conductor, is to get the best music out of the musicians. His role is to coach, encourage, support, and occasionally push. But the conductor never makes a sound.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The true voyage of discovery is not so much seeking new landscapes as it is seeing with new eyes. Marcel Proust

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller.

In the course of life all of us spend time in "dark and dreary" places, wildernesses, circumstances of sorrow or fear or discouragement. Our present day is filled with global distress over financial crises, energy problems, terrorist attacks, and natural calamities. These translate into individual and family concerns not only about homes in which to live and food available to eat but also about the ultimate safety and well-being of our children and the latter-day prophecies about our planet. More serious than these-and sometimes related to them-are matters of ethical, moral, and spiritual decay seen in populations large and small, at home and abroad. But I testify that angels are still sent to help us, even as they were sent to help Adam and Eve, to help the prophets, and indeed to help the Savior of the world Himself. Matthew records in his gospel that after Satan had tempted Christ in the wilderness "angels came and ministered unto him." Even the Son of God, a God Himself, had need for heavenly comfort during His sojourn in mortality. And so such ministrations will be to the righteous until the end of time. Jeffrey R. Holland, The Ministry of Angels. Ensign, November 2008, 29-31.