“If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.”
"Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1) acceptance, 2) understanding, 3) appreciation. Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole."
- Vera Nazarian
Love
"I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy."
- Vera Nazarian
Happiness
"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."
- Vera Nazarian
Inspiration
"The difference between real life and a story is that life has _significance_, while a story must have _meaning_. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end."
- Vera Nazarian
Inspiration
"Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day."
- Vera Nazarian
Inspiration
"Because God has given you your agency, you can choose many directions to go and still lead a fulfilling life. Mortality is an open-ended, choose-your-own-adventure story. You have commandments, you have covenants, you have inspired prophetic counsel, and you have the gift of the Holy Ghost. That is more than enough to lead you to mortal happiness and eternal joy."
- Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Choice
"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Choice
"If you begin to regret, you’ll dull your future decisions and let others make your choices for you. All that’s left for you then is to die. Nobody can foretell the outcome. Each decision you make holds meaning only by affecting your next decision."
- Erwin Smith
Choice
"It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- J.K. Rowling
Choice
"Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Choice