Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

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"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

Courage

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

Change

"The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."

- C.S. Lewis

Faith

"Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world."

- C.S. Lewis

Faith

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"We have raised the bar. … But that doesn’t raise it just for the youth. That raises it for the parents, who have the primary responsibility for teaching their children principles. That raises it for the leaders. That raises it for the teachers. We’ve all got to take a step up in a world that is unraveling as fast as this one is."

- President M. Russell Ballard

Responsibility

"Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. People can’t stop you. Only you can stop you."

- Unknown

Responsibility

"Life comes at a cost. Wouldn’t it be arrogant to die before you’ve repaid that debt?"

- Yuuji Kazami

Responsibility

"You can’t win a game by doing nothing. And if someone else wins it for you then you haven’t accomplished anything. Life is the same way."

- Junichirou Kagami

Responsibility

"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."

- John F. Kennedy

Responsibility