It's your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life's story will develop.

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"In family relationships, ‘love’ is really spelled ‘t-i-m-e,’ time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Love

"In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Love

"Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Love

"So often we become focused on the finish line that we fail to enjoy the journey."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Awareness

"Let our hearts be stretched out in compassion toward others, for everyone is walking his or her own difficult path."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Compassion

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity