Could these really be real?

If so, I know what is missing from my garden - - - CHOCOLATE roses!!!

Those who hope in the Lord will renew
their strength. They will soar on wings
like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:31

"There is a light in this world.
A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.
We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain.
Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.”

~Mother Teresa

A couple of my favorite and forever Valentines....

And in the garden of my heart So ceaselessly shall shine,
The little birds will know thou art Mine own true Valentines.
(You always were and always shall be!)

Cupid Cowboy

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
-Cinderella

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."

- William Shakespeare

It's coming...almost Valentine's Day...my favorite!

It's not even like I get the red heart box of candy (although I would sort of like it, but I'd end up eating it all) and we don't go to dinner on Valentine's night because we know it will be too crowded. I don't exchange gifts with Royce so it's not materialistic at all....but for some reason I love it. I'm just a born romantic...

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
-George Washington

Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.
- Danish proverb

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small
by his own will.
- J.C.F. von Schiller

Cambria...a nice Christmas jaunt over to the coast never hurt anybody!

"It is possible for Christ to be born in men’s lives, and when such an experience actually happens, a man is “in Christ”—Christ is “formed” in him. This presupposes that we take Christ into our hearts and make Him the living contemporary of our lives. He is not just a general truth or a fact in history, but the Savior of men everywhere and at all times. When we strive to be Christlike, He is “formed” in us; if we open the door, He will enter; if we seek His counsel, He will counsel us. For Christ to be “formed” in us, we must have a belief in Him and in His Atonement. Such a belief in Christ and the keeping of His commandments are not restraints upon us. By these, men are set free. This Prince of Peace waits to give peace of mind, which may make each of us a channel of that peace."
--Howard W. Hunter

Looking to the light...

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"Follow me,” the Savior said. And we realize that to follow him is not impossible. The miles which he traveled, each of us can travel, for he took them one step at a time, one journey at a time. You could walk from Jerusalem to Nazareth. You could walk to the Sea of Galilee from Nazareth. You could follow Joseph and Mary and Jesus to Egypt. You could walk to the Mount of Transfiguration and back and forth from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, Bethany, the River Jordan. All these, you could do. But this is not the kind of following that he expected. He meant for us to follow his teachings and his example. Anyone with normal health can walk those miles and climb those hills and ford those streams. But it is quite another thing to be “even as I am,” (3 Ne. 27:27) as he said to the Nephites."
--Spencer W. Kimball

Gone With the Wind

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"Giving, not getting, brings to full bloom the Christmas spirit. Enemies are forgiven, friends remembered, and God obeyed. The spirit of Christmas illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than things. To catch the real meaning of the “spirit of Christmas,” we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the “Spirit of Christ."
--Thomas S. Monson

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

Abigail Adams

"These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman."

Abigail Adams

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"It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny."
--Dieter F. Uchtdorf