#uplifting

"i hope thatwhoever you arewherever you areand no matter howyou are feelingyou will always have somethingto smile about."

"The devil's happy when the critics run you off."

"This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world."

"Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope."

"Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline."Proverbs 1:7 NLT"

"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."

"You can wake up every day looking forward to new adventures with hope smiling brightly before you because you have a Savior. You are baptized in His Church.... You just need to stay in, pressing forward with a brightness of hope to your heavenly home."

"I will always find a way and a way will always find me."

"I know it may not be an easy thing to do, but with the right person by their side, they can conquer anything."

"I'd tell them that it gets better. That they may not be able to beat death when their time comes, but they can beat death in life. I know it may not be an easy thing to do, but with the right person by their side they can conquer anything."

"Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing."

"If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way."

"Because paper has more patience than people."

"Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' goldAnd like the sky my soul is also turnin'Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind"

"But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am."

"I believe the way to master my destiny is to serve others. If I raise up others, am I not also raised up?"

"It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dissipate. I did not connect the two at that time. First, I simply noticed that I didn’t need to sleep so much. It took a while before I realized that in addition to my improved energy level, there was a direct correlation between chewing on mental garbage and putting garbage in my mouth."

"Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone."

"Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."

"As an author, I like self-help, because clapping can be done by myself, for myself. I should buy gloves."