Good Thought to Live By #17

Ceiling in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, Salt Lake City

How to Obtain Revelation and Inspiration for Your Personal Life Posted: 28 Apr 2012 08:00 AM PDT "Communication with our Father in Heaven is not a trivial matter. It is a sacred privilege. It is based upon eternal, unchanging principles. We receive help from our Father in Heaven in response to our faith, obedience, and the proper use of agency." —Elder Richard G. Scott, "How to Obtain Revelation and Inspiration for Your Personal Life", General Conference, Apr. 2012 Topics: Prayer, Revelation

Visitor in our back yard

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
-Irish proverb


Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
-Theodore Roosevelt


Sometimes we have to replace a few “what ifs” with some good old-fashioned “so whats.”
-Denny Brake, Raleigh, North Carolina


You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
-Beverly Sills

A couple of other visitors with the group of four

Good Timber


The tree that never had to fight        Good timber does not grow with ease,
For sun and sky and air and light,        The stronger wind, the stronger trees,
But stood out in the open plain        The further sky, the greater length,
And always got its share of rain,        The more the storm the more the strength.
Never became a forest king            By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
But lived and died a scrubby thing.        In trees and men good timbers grow.


The man who never had to toil        Where thickest lies the forest growth
To gain and farm his patch of soil,        We find the patriarchs of both.
Who never had to win his share        And they hold counsel with the stars
Of sun and sky and light and air,        Whose broken branches show the scars
Never became a manly man            Of many winds and much of strife.
But lived and died as he began.        This is the common law of life.
-Douglas Mallock

This used to be the entry to the Hotel Utah.  It is now the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.  We ate on the 10th floor of this building for our anniversary.  

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein


If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be welcome.
-Anne Bradstreet


You must understand that you create all that you are.
-Bob Greene


Realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.  Choice is the engine of our evolution.
-Gary Zukav

Daffodils in our front yard

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face . . . You must do the thing you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt


Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow, gather the roses today.
-Pierre de Ronsard


Joy is not in things; it is in us.
-Richard Wagner


Always do right.  This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
-Mark Twain


The plan of salvation is designed to make of this earth, a heaven, and of man, a god.
-Bruce R. McConkie

I've always love the marble staircase in the Joseph Smith Building

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Thee lift me, and I lift thee, and together we ascend.
-John Greenleaf Whittier


He who sits cross-legged with mouth open waiting for roast duck to fly in is going to have a long hunger.
-Old Confucian Proverb