"You're scared because if you try and fail, there's only you to blame... Life is scary--Get used to it. There are no magical fixes; it's all up to you. So get up off your keyster, get out of here and start doing the work!... Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy." ~Dr. Robert Kelso
"It's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in this world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it. And then it flows through me like rain, and I can feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid, little life." ~From American Beauty
"Love is not a victory march/It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah... It's not a cry that you hear at night/And it's not somebody who's seen the light/It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah." ~From the song Hallelujah, performed by so many artists that I have no idea who did the original
"If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied/Illuminate the "no"s on their vacancy signs/If there's no one there beside you when your soul embarks/I'll follow you into the dark." ~From I Will Follow You Into The Dark, by Death Cab For Cutie
These are some amazing quotes, but there are so many more out there. More beautiful, more eloquent, more simple, more poignant. Hopefully one of these will strike your fancy and perhaps alter the course of your life. Here's one that did so for me:
"And all at once the crowd begins to sing/Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same." ~All At Once, The Fray
And another, more recent, most applicable to all:
"Your future will be as bright as your faith." ~President Thomas S. Monson, qtd. by Elder Russell M. Nelson in last General Conference (April 2011)
Live your life according to what you know is right by the Spirit. The most important thing I have learned this year at BYU wasn't in the classroom, or even church. I learned to act. When you stumble upon some great truth, some great quote, or even a simple truth, live by it. That is the only way we will learn the mysteries of God and become celestial beings. Don't be passive and let life happen to you. Make your life happen. I promise all of you that if you do so, your life will go in the best direction possible. It may not be what you hope for now, but believe me, you will be so much happier than if all your dreams came true.
If there is one thing you learn, make it be to learn how to pray. It is my opinion that prayer is the most important and powerful tool given to mankind, and too often we take it for granted. Prayer is direct communication with God. Does that not strike you as astounding? Prayer allows us to have a conversation with our Heavenly Father! Sometimes I can't even believe that we are allowed such a great privilege, fallen as we are. "I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me, Confused at the love that so fully he proffers me. I tremble to know that for me, He was crucified, That for me, a sinner, he suffered, he bled and died... I marvel that he would descend from his throne divine To rescue a soul so rebellious and proud as mine... Oh, it is wonderful that he should care for me enough to die for me. Oh, it is wonderful, wonderful to me." This applies to each and every one of you. Don't squander this impossibly great gift.
Strive to live your life in such a way that on that day when you meet the Savior face to face, he will beam and embrace you and call you "Friend." What greater compliment, in heaven or earth, could be given?
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