“Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.”

—Vernon Howard

“Certainty is impossible. Once you realize it, you stop seeking it and you become calm.” Maxime Lagacé

—Blaise Pascal

“Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship 'in spirit and in truth.' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.”

—Elisabeth Elliot

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

—Laozi

“Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.”

—Angelus Silesius

“Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.”

C. S. Lewis

“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.”

Thomas S. Monson

“Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.”

Pema Chodron

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.”

Thomas S. Monson

“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”

Gautama Buddha