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Can you guess what Helayna was for Halloween? We took her to two houses and decided that was enough for the night.

My favorite Quotes!

Quotes inspire me, bring me up when I'm down, make me think, and most of the time just say it better than I can!

Here are a few of my favorites:

"The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore. . . Unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible. . . it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors. . . to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown."
-Ferdinand Magellan (explorer, c. 1520)

"Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief--that's more terrible than dying--more terrible than dying young."
-Maxwell Anderson, Joan of Lorraine, act 2

"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 there to be grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's 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 childrens sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
-Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
-Mark Twain

"People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered; Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God; It was never between you and them anyway."
-This version is credited to Mother Teresa

"Like the polar star in the heavens. . . there stands the redeemer of the world, the Son of God, certain and sure as the anchor of our immortal lives. He is the rock of our salvation, our strength, our comfort, the very focus of our faith. In sunshine and in shadow we look to Him, and He is there to assure and smile upon us.
-President Gordon B. Hinckley

"And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they meay be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."
Ether 12:27

"If you wrestle with a skunk, even if you win you come out smelling a little bit like one."
-An old farmer out in Corinne

"Holding a grudge against someone is kinda like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."
-Brigham Implement

"He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool."
-Brigham Young

"Character is higher than intellect."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"By this shall all men know ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
John 13:35

The Smalt Family

Friday, October 31, 2008

Halloween!!

My favorite Quotes!