Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

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"Education is the difference between wishing you could help other people and being able to help them."

- Russell M. Nelson

Education

"The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come."

- Russell M. Nelson

Service

"It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit."

- Russell M. Nelson

Self-improvement

"The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother."

- Russell M. Nelson

Achievement

"“The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.”"

- Russell M. Nelson

Achievement

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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