No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.

The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.