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And now after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony last of all, which we give of him: That he lives!

For we saw him even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father.”
-D&C 76:22–23

Fear not, little children, for you are mine, and I have overcome the world, and you are of them that my Father hath given me; and none of them that my Father hath given me shall be lost.
-D & C 50: 41-42

"When I dress my children, I am clothing the naked. When I feed my children, I am feeding the hungry. When I take care of my children, I am doing what the Savior asks me to do."
-A Wise Mother

To live will be an awfully big adventure.
-Peter Pan in Hook

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
-Sir James M. Barrie

"If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for a man or woman."
-Uncle Alec in Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

That which someone else does needn't detract from that which you do.
-Daryl V. Hoole; No Two Diamonds Are Alike in "Remarkable Stories From The Lives Of Latter-Day Saint Women"

There is nothing more vital to our success and our happiness here than learning to hear the voice of the Spirit. It is the Spirit who reveals to us our identity, which isn't just who we are but who we have always been. And when we know that, our lives take on a sense of purpose so compelling that we can never be the same again.
-Sherri Dew in "Saying it like it is."

Man can not degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he can not elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
-Alexander Walker, in "Elbert Hubbard’s Scrap Book"

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.
-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Tomorrow has enough duties of its own to attend to, so don't crowd the duties of today on tomorrow.
-Wife of a man known simply as Brother P

Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all. Their goal is to prepare a rising generation of children who will take the gospel of Jesus Christ into the entire world. Their goal is to prepare future fathers and mothers who will be builders of the Lord’s kingdom for the next 50 years. That is influence; that is power.
Julie B. Beck, “Mothers Who Know,” Oct.2007