I want you to believe deep in your heart that you are capable of achieving anything you put your mind to. That you will NEVER LOSE. You either win or learn. Just go forth and aim for the skies. I can’t promise to be here for the rest of your life, but I promise to love you for the rest of mine (and forever) Love DAD
“Have you not heard others speak as Thomas spoke? ‘Give us,’ they say, the empirical evidence. Prove before our very eyes, and our ears, and our hands, else we will not believe.’ This is the language of the time in which we live. Thomas the Doubter has become the example of men in all ages who refuse to accept other than that which they can physically prove and explain—as if they could prove love, or faith, or even such physical phenomena as electricity. …’To all within the sound of my voice who may have doubts, I repeat the words given Thomas as he felt the wounded hands of the lord: ‘Be not faithless, but believing.”
Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do great things. Believe that no mountain is so high that you cannot climb it. You are a child of God, of infinite capacity.
“God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, He expects you not simply to face the future (that sounds pretty grim and stoic); He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities. God is anxiously waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as He always has. But He can’t if you don’t pray, and He can’t if you don’t dream. In short, He can’t if you don’t believe.”
"You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve"
“A prophet does not stand between you and the Savior. Rather, he stands beside you and points the way to the Savior. A prophet’s greatest responsibility and most precious gift to us is his sure witness, his certain knowledge, that Jesus is the Christ. Like Peter of old, our prophet declares, ‘[He is] the Christ, the Son of the living God’ [Matthew 16:16; see also John 6:69]. “In a future day, looking back on our mortality, we will rejoice that we walked the earth at the time of a living prophet. At that day, I pray that we will be able to say: “We listened to him. We believed him. We studied his words with patience and faith. We prayed for him. We stood by him. We were humble enough to follow him. We loved him”