“Political democracy … with all its threatening evils, supplies a training school for making first class men. It is life’s gymnasium, not of good only, but of all.”
"We were together. I forget the rest."
- Walt Whitman
Love
"You are so much sunshine in every square inch."
- Walt Whitman
Love
"They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him / They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love."
- Walt Whitman
Love
"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life."
- Walt Whitman
Love
"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."
- Walt Whitman
Awareness
"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