Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

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"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."

- Lucy Larcom

Compassion

"“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”"

- Lucy Larcom

Hope

"If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it."

- Lucy Larcom

Hope

"He who plants a tree. Plants a hope."

- Lucy Larcom

Hope

"Each red stripe has blazoned forth Gospels writ in blood; Every star has sung the birth Of some deathless good."

- Lucy Larcom

Inspiration

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"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

Growth

"How marvelous is the generation with which you deal. We have never had a generation its equal in all of the history of the Church. They are better educated. They are more familiar with the scriptures. I believe they pray with a greater measure of faith, have a greater desire to do the will of the Lord, are more active in the Church, go into the world as better prepared missionaries, and live to become better parents."

- President Gordon B. Hinckley

Growth

"Allow yourself the opportunity to get uncomfortable."

- Alex Toussaint

Growth

"All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone."

- Tony Robbins

Growth

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

- Mary Tyler Moore

Growth