“Our challenges, including those we create by our own decisions, are part of our test in mortality. Let me assure you that your situation is not beyond the reach of our Savior. Through Him, every struggle can be for our experience and our good (see D&C 122:7). Each temptation we overcome is to strengthen us, not destroy us. The Lord will never allow us to suffer beyond what we can endure (see 1 Corinthians 10:13). “We must remember that the adversary knows us extremely well. He knows where, when, and how to tempt us. If we are obedient to the promptings of the Holy Ghost, we can learn to recognize the adversary’s enticements. Before we yield to temptation, we must learn to say with unflinching resolve, ‘Get thee behind me, Satan’ (Matthew 16:23).”

Robert D. Hales

christopher robin and i walk along
under branches lit up by the moon
posing our questions to owl and eeyore
as our days disappear all too soon
but i wandered much further today than i should
and i cant seem to find my way back to the wood
so help me if you can ive got to get back
to the house at a quarter by one
youll be surprise theres so much to be done
count all the bees in the hive
chase all the clouds from the sky
back to the days of christopher robin
winnie the pooh doesnt know what to do
got a honey jar stuck on his nose
he came to me asking help and advice
from here no one knows where he goes
so i sent him to ask of the owl if hes there
how to loosen a jar from the nose of a bear
help me if you can ive got to get back
to the house at a quarter by one
youll be surprise theres so much to be done
count all the bees in the hive
chase all the clouds from the sky
back to the days of christopher robin
try to explain how a few precious things
seem to follow through by all our lives
after all said and done i was watching my son
sleeping there with my bear by his side
so i tucked him in i kissed him and as i was gone
i swear that old bear whispered boy welcome home
believe me if you can i finally got back
to the house at pooh corner by one
what do you know theres so much to be done
count all the bees in the hive
chase all the clouds from the sky
back to the days of christopher robin
back to the ways of christopher robin
back to the days of pooh

Play me a sad song
'Cause that’s what I want to hear

I don't wanna feel the way that i do
I just wanna be right here with you
I don't wanna see, see us apart
I just wanna tell you straight from my heart

What would it take
For you to see
To make you wanna stand
That i always believe
You and i can make it through
You still know I can't get over you

I miss you

Honestly, I'm missing you

And I hope that you're missing me.

I want to hold your hand.

{when I touch you, I feel happy inside
it's such a feeling that my love,
I can't hide}

Darlin, do not fear what you don't really know.

I owe you a love song
So much i could say
I owe you a love song
Words that i can't say

Remember the days
Of sleepless summer nights
That took us away
A perfect place a different time
Back when nothing was wrong
Now were each sold separately
Our summers are gone
Grey skies are all i see

These broken days won't last forever
You know i'll put us back together

Waiting alone
In the world you made for me
Makes staying in love
Just a world of make believe
Where im playing along
And your words are clear to me
Like hearing a song
Without a melody

These broken days won't last forever
You know i'll put us back together

I owe you a love song
So much i could say
I owe you a love song
Words that i can't say

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.


Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

- Langston Hughes

Dearest, though you're the nearest to my heart
please don't ever
ever say we'll part

yes together
our love will grow old
You may be a million miles away
please believe me
when you hear me say
I love you - I love you

Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.

Rafiki

Always remember there was nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name.

-the Avett Brothers

O'Hara: Detective Lassiter is literally on fire today.


Shawn Spencer: Literally on fire" as in Michael Jackson in the Pepsi commercial, or as in a misuse of the word "literally?"

Gus: Wasn't Howie the victim at one point?


Shawn Spencer: Gus, that is so forty minutes ago. I bet you're still telling your friends to chillax.

"He's reliable. He's considerate. He's like your exact opposite."

"So he's Bizarro Jerry."

"Bizarro Jerry?"

"Yeah, like Bizarro Superman, Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwards Bizarro world. Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he leaves, goodbye when he arrives."

"Shouldn't he say badbye? Isn't that the opposite of goodbye?"

"No, it's still goodbye."

"Does he live underwater?"

"No."

"Is he black?"

"Look, just forget the whole thing."

Maybe I don't use my exclamation points as haphazardly as you do.

-Jake to Elaine on Seinfeld

I can't sleep
I've lost the urge to sing
No one's left a friend
The cost of ill pretend
Where'd you go?
I need you now
I said ooh-ooh

Ten thousand miles apart
A frozen ocean joins our hearts
I can't wait to meet you when
The frozen waves meet ocean floors
You'll be standing on the shore
I can't wait to meet you then

look into my heart to see:

is he the one for me?

look into my memories:

is he the one for me?

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable

And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table

No one can find the rewind button, girl.

So cradle your head in your hands

And breathe... just breathe,

Oh breathe, just breathe

Tell me am i right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together?

Don't you remember the last time we were speeding down this highway?
Anna slept in the back seat, dreaming in the autumn heat.
We turned up the country radio.
I said, "if you want me just say so."
I slicked back my hair in the wind.
I told you I didn't want my picture taken but you snapped it anyway.
Now I guess you won't have trouble remembering me someday.
So I floored it and swerved around the lanes.
I kept wishing it were you instead of me behind the wheel
so maybe with my camera I could steal a shot of you
and go home to put it in my room.

Time is running out, come save.
Death is creeping in, come save.
We humble ourselves and seek Your face.
Pour out Your mercy like rain.
Your sons and your daughters cry for You.
The waves of the waters reach for You.
All of creation rises up and screams out Your name.
Oh Lord, come save.
Addicted to our pride, come save.
Consumed in self-delight, come save.
Break us and free us from these chains.
We desperately need Your grace.
Come awaken us from our sleep.
Come bring us to our knees.
Come whisper truth in our ears.
Come save

Calendar Girl, who's in love with the world,
stay alive
Calendar Girl, who is lost to the world,
stay alive.

I just ran into a few someone's today
Someone's that I never really knew
And I used to think how I had them all so figured out

But no, none of it's true 'cause I never knew you
and now the truth of it is, is I wanna be like you
So hello, good friend, I wanna be next to you
For my head, for my heart, for what's true

So I'm burning the thoughts of the things that I once said
Because you tore down the walls that the world has put inside my head
And I just get sick of the things that we think, we think we know

And no, none of it's true 'cause I never knew you
and now the truth of it is, is I wanna be like you
So hello, good friend, I wanna be next to you
For my head, for my heart, for what's true

I so hate consequences

When I got tired of running from you
I stopped right there to catch my breath
There your words they caught my ears
You said, “I miss you son. Come home”
And my sins, they watched me leave
And in my heart I so believed
The love you felt for me was mine
The love I’d wished for all this time
And when the doors were closed
I heard no I told so’s
I said the words I knew you knew
Oh God, Oh God I needed you
God all this time I needed you, I needed you

And I so hate consequences
And running from you is what my best defense is
I hate these consequences
Because I know that I let you down
Now I don't wanna deal with that

Dramatic Reading of a Breakup Letter.

Oh, this is funny.

I keep your picture by my bed for when I'm feeling sad
And I don't know why i would be.
The way your smile looks so real
I feel like I could start to understand your grace.
...
Cause I have photographs and memories of the times
When you weren't on my mind and I was alone.
And I have poetry and drawings of my life
When you weren't on my side and I didn't know
Just what is love...
Writing moments on the wall with different colors
Keeps my mind away from missing you.
And I can't wait to fall asleep to slip into my dreams
Where we can dance upon a star..
And I will be as patient as a boy in love could ever be.
Cause I don't feel like I was real until you were
A part of me.



I need you back, I need you back
I need you here.
I need your smile, I need your eyes
I need you, dear.
Cause every line on your face makes a beautiful maze
For my eyes to trace...

we were sixteen.
maybe less, maybe a little more.

I must conquer my loneliness alone.

I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer.

Two halves have little choice but to join, and yes, they do make a whole.

But two wholes, when they coincide . . . that is beauty.

That is love.

Peter Williams

Is it a coincidence that missionaries give a portion of their lives in behalf of others, then come home and testify of their great love for the people they have served? Is it any wonder that bishops and other priesthood and auxiliary leaders who sacrifice for others are filled with love for those who are recipients of their labors? Is there a greater love among mortals than that of a mother, who offers all for her child? Many who desire to have charity like Jesus attain it as he did.

Elder Max C. Caldwell

unanswered questions

why does everything remind me of you?

why can i not stop thinking about you?

and why do i miss you now more than ever?

and why do i feel like i need to leave as soon as you come home?

I'm just sitting out here, watching airplanes
take off and fly away
tryin' to figure out which one you might be on

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

Marilyn Monroe

history never looks like history when you are living through it.

john w. gardner

Once upon a time, there was a quiet little village in the French countryside, whose people believed in Tranquilité - Tranquility. If you lived in this village, you understood what was expected of you. You knew your place in the scheme of things. And if you happened to forget, someone would help remind you. In this village, if you saw something you weren't supposed to see, you learned to look the other way. If perchance your hopes had been disappointed, you learned never to ask for more. So through good times and bad, famine and feast, the villagers held fast to their traditions. Until, one winter day, a sly wind blew in from the North...

i miss you.

you really got a hold on me. .
i love you and i really want you to do is just hold me.

(she & him)

come away with me
and I'll never stop loving you

and I want to wake up with the rain
falling on a tin roof
while I'm safe there in your arms
so all I ask is for you
to come away with me in the night
come away with me

- norah jones.