If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.

Robert Brault

During the last year, there have been moments when this blog felt like a futile attempt to figure out what makes me happy. The reality is, I already knew the answer to the this question.

So am I happier than I was 366 days ago? ...

Perhaps a little.

"Men are, that they might have joy." I testify that much of that joy comes as we recognize that we can communicate with our Heavenly Father through prayer and that those prayers will be heard and answered--perhaps not how and when we expected they would be answered, but they will be answered and by a Heavenly Father who knows and loves us perfectly and who desires our happiness. Hasn't He promised us, "Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to they prayers"?

Thomas S. Monson

Come walk the path that leads to eternal happiness, joy, and everlasting life in the kingdom of our Heavenly Father.

Robert D. Hales

The purpose of mortality is to learn and to grow to be more like our Father, and it is often during the difficult times that we learn the most, as painful as the lessons may be. Our lives can also be filled with joy as we follow the teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Thomas S. Monson

Now, brothers and sisters, I'm not encouraging religious zealotry or fanaticism. Quite the contrary! I'm simply suggesting that we take the next logical step in our complete conversion to the gospel of Christ by assimilating its doctrine deep within our hearts and our souls so we will act and live consistently--and with integrity--what we profess to believe. This integrity simplifies our lives and amplifies our sensitivities to the Spirit and to the needs of others. It brings joy into our lives and peace to our souls--the kind of joy and peace that comes to us as we repent of our sins and follow the Savior by keeping His commandments.

M. Russell Ballard

Testimony brings increased personal accountability and is a source of purpose, assurance, and joy.

David A. Bednar

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Matthew 1:23

And I looked and beheld the virgin again, bearing a child in her arms. And the angel said unto me: Behold the Lamb of God, yea, even the Son of the Eternal Father! Knowest thou the meaning of the tree which thy father saw? And I answered him, saying: Yea, it is the love of God, which sheddeth itself abroad in the hearts of the children of men; wherefore, it is the most desirable above all things. And he spake unto me, saying: Yea, and the most joyous to the soul.

1 Nephi 11:20-23

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring to you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ The Lord.

Luke 2:10-11

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

Georges Duhamel

Like a holiday shutdown...

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Don Herold

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Eugene O'Neill

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

John 15:10-11

Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

Last week with the children's Christmas party and this week with the adult one, I'm pretty sure there are pros to both phases.

Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,
a gentle breath of heaven
fills my soul with delight...

Hazelmarie 'Mattie' Elliot

With the tragedy of today, I pray we can all find a moment to feel the gentle breeze of heaven and feel the assurance and peace that comes from God.

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

Robert Brault

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

Robert Brault

I thoroughly enjoy this quote. As learned in my theory of analysis course, sometimes the way to prove something's existence or nonexistence is to disprove or prove the opposite.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Sydney J. Harris

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

Janet Lane

For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody... Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Isaiah 51:3,11

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Lady Blessington

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Bernard de Fontenelle

A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap.

Miriam Muhammad

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

Yevgeny Zamyatin

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Anton Chekhov

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

William Saroyan

The Lord, in His kindness, seeing the attitude of His children, and knowing that they would need guidance, gave us the Ten Commandments, and other commandments that have been given from time to time, to help us to find happiness. You observe people running to and fro in the world, seeking happiness but not finding it. If they would only pause long enough to accept the Lord's advice happiness would follow, but they will find it no other way.

George Albert Smith

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.

Andrew Delbanco

As this year of happy thoughts is coming to a close, I can't help but wonder have I been running in circles. Am I really happier?

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

Robert Brault

It is an individual journey. You don't have to take it alone, but no one else can tell you which direction to turn first.

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.

J.M. Reinoso

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Joseph Roux

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Berke Breathed

As a good friend reminded me yesterday, it is never too late to enjoy Macaroni and Cheese and gummy bears. It is the little things that matter more. 

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

Mark a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Psalm 100

You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got.

Viki King

There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.

Ralph H. Blum

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am grateful for what I am and have.
My thanksgiving is perpetual...
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches.
No run on my bank can drain it
for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Henry David Thoreau

Of course I am thankful for all the usual things this year 

The Gospel, My Savior, My Husband, My Child, family, friends, a home 

but there have been additions to my list in the last 12 months that has given my life new meaning 

"Hi" Walking Communication Teeth Hair

 Couch Frames Crafts Books Escape

And even more love this year than I had last year 

for the man who made me his over 53 months ago.  

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

David Steindl-Rast

If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.

Henry David Thoreau

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

Colossians 3:14-15

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce

The Devil's Dictionary

All too often we play the comparison game and only then do we think we are happy. Happiness is an individual sport, enhanced by playing for a team... kind of like tennis.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Walter Savage Landor

So true. As soon as we think there is more happiness out there to be had, we stop looking at the happiness we have.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Colette

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Thornton Wilder

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Mother Teresa

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Seneca

Our minds are powerful tools, might as well put them to good use.

In the end, happiness does not spring from perfection but applying divine principles, even in small steps.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Booth Tarkington

I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy.

Allen J. Lefferdink

This is the kind of statement we all should be able to make... I guess we are all able... This is the kind of statement we should all choose to make, and not be lying.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.

Gerald Jampolsky

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

If we will follow the advice and counsel that the Lord has given, our pathway will be one of happiness. It will be a pathway, perhaps not of ease and comfort always, but in the end it will terminate in the presence of our Heavenly Father, and glory, immortality and eternal lives will be our portion.

George Albert Smith

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking.

H.W. Byles

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Doug Larson

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

Jack Handey

A sense of humor...is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Hugh Sidey

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

In all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, not matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

Henry Ward Beecher

The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.

Nicolas Chamfort

There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.

Francoise Sagan

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Puzant Kevork Thomajan

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Ecclesiastes 3:4

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Milton Berle

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

Agnes Repplier

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Gordon W. Allport

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

Yiddish Proverb

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.

Alan Alda

Laughter and a good sense of humor can soften the bumps along life's journey.

Steven E. Snow

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.

Irish Proverb

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." 

Quincy Jones

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

Henri Bergson

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Raymond Hitchcock

The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

Kurt Vonnegut

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.

Anna Fellows Johnston

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Thomas Carlyle

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stay as long as it wants.

Stephen King

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

Linda Ellerbee

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

These are some of the simple chords of melody that make a home harmonious and happy. Kindness, consideration, courtesy, care, laughter, unselfishness, prayer, thoughtfulness, doing things for each other, forgiving each other, sustaining each other, loving each other--these are notes that form a family symphony happily enjoyed and eternally remembered.

Marion D. Hanks

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

Jim Carrey

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

Doug Larson

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

He is happy according to what he is...

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Johann Pestalozzi

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

All safety, all righteousness, all happiness are on the Lord's side of the line.

George Albert Smith

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

The happy have whole days, 
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.

Colley Cibber

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

Channing Pollock

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Gretta Brooker

If you only do what you know you can do -- you never do very much.

Tom Krause

Surely there is nothing men need more than the blessings of peace and happiness and hearts free from fear. And these are offered [to] all of us if we will but be partakers of them.

George Albert Smith

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Taisen Deshimaru

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

Happiness is an inside job.

William Arthur Ward

To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

Gretchen Rubin

I thought a lot about what today's quote should be in the midst of the 11th commemoration of the tragedy in New York City on this exact day. This one felt appropriate. I think we sometimes forget that to know happiness we need to know sadness and it is important to know what makes us feel bad. It is important to take time to reflect on those hard times, but more importantly it is important to reflect on them as a starting point for growth.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Philip Brooks

When we accept duties willingly and faithfully, we find happiness. Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end itself. Happiness comes from doing one's duty and knowing that his life is in harmony with God and His commandments.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Robert Brault

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles L. Morgan

To live in perpetual want of little things is a state, not indeed of torture, but of constant vexation.

Samuel Johnson

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Hermann Hesse

We must exercise ourselves in the things that bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Epicurus

Happiness is a strange commodity. It cannot be purchased with money, and yet it is bought with a price. It is not dependent upon houses, or lands, or flocks, or degrees, or position, or comforts; for many of the most unhappy people in all the world have these.

Spencer W. Kimball

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Helen Keller

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Daphne du Maurier

It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery, and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson

The ultimate "little things," aka children, tend to show us perfectly what it means to find happiness. Have you ever watched a child spot a bird? Or play in a puddle? Or simply feel the wind against her face? It really is in the little things.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

Oscar Wilde

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats

To my Little Lady:

Thank you for a year of tremendous growth!

You have taught we so much about happiness.

I love you forever!

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I assure you that the joy, love, and fulfillment experienced in loving, righteous families produce the greatest possible happiness we can achieve. That happiness is the foundation for a successful society.

Quentin L. Cook

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Jean de La Bruyere

Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stay gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

William Wordsworth

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

St. Augustine

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. They way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.

Jeffrey R. Holland

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then had had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

A.A. Milne

The chief happiness for a man is to be what he is.

Erasmus

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Palmer Sondreal

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Jacques Prevert

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Brian Tracy

Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord Jesus Chris, and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another.

M. Russell Ballard

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

Like a duck race...

When people are deeply happy they bring a sense of purpose with them wherever they go, whatever circumstances they are in. So if they're changing the oil in the car, they bring a sense of joyful purpose even to that.

Marci Shimoff

And if they are going to see one of the most delightful Broadway musicals, they certainly bring a sense of joyful purpose to that! Cheers!

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Hosea Ballou

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Sophocles

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

When was your last happy interval?

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

John Stuart Mill

I testify of the great blessing of children and of the happiness they will bring us in this life and in the eternities.

Neil L. Anderson

While I knew what happiness was before becoming a mother, things such as nose kisses, "hi," book reading, and locating my nose have increased my happiness.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

William R. Inge

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Leslie Caron

Perhaps this same logic can be used with regards to Mondays and Fridays...

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Robert Brault

Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

Paulo Coelho

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Stark

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

The gospel is the way of discipleship. As we walk in that way, we can experience confidence and joy-- even during times of peril, sorrow, and uncertainty.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let is go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Maxim Gorky

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

Werner Erhard

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

Robert Brault

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day

Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

Emily Dickinson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Samuel Johnson

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

Not concerned with what others think; however, we must be concerned with serving others to be happy.

You know that you are happiest when you are anxiously engaged in a good work.

Adrian Ochoa

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Joseph Joubert

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.

Robert Brault

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J.D. Salinger

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Johnny Carson

You have the ability to choose righteousness and happiness, no matter what your circumstances.

Thomas S. Monson

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

William Feather

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.

Norman Bradburn

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

John Rushkin

800th pageview today, folks! Exciting stuff!

To those of you who regularly check these happy thoughts, 

thank you for adding to my reason I do this.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

Robert Brault

Happiness isn't about constant bliss. 

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.

W. Beran Wolfe

This is a long quote,

 but it is worth reading.

Said for those who may have looked at today and thought, "Wow, too long."

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

Jean Ingelow

There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home. ... There is no happiness without service, and there is no service greater than that which converts the home into a divine institution, and which promotes and preserves family life.... The home is what needs reforming.

Joseph F. Smith

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

Sometimes we just have to do something to reap the results, instead of analyzing it to death.

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.

Lavetta Sue Wegman

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Arnold Glasow

The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.

Thucydides

Happy Independence Day!

If you can't find any other reason to be happy today, 

Be happy because we live in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Josh Billings

[L]aughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Hugh Sidney

We are all searching for happiness; we hope for is, we think we live for it, it is our aim in this life. But do we live so as to enjoy the happiness we so much desire?

Brigham Young

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

Hugh Sidey

This week has been all about laughter. Perhaps it is the best medicine.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

Mary H. Waldrip

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

Mort Walker

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

Proverb

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Ken Kesey

Our doctrine is clear; we are to be positive and of good cheer. We emphasize our faith, not our fears. We rejoice in the Lord's assurance that He will stand by us and give us guidance and direction.

Quentin L. Cook

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Brian Tracy

Happy 40th Anniversary!

Just as you have provided meaning and purpose for one another, 

you have guided all of us to find our own.

Thank you!

We all love you both!

xoxo

And dear Sister,

Thank you for always helping me figure out meaning in my life.

You are the best sister a girl could have.

xoxo

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Salvador Dali

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Josh Billings

Indeed, my happiness is right in front of my eyes... at least when he is not at work.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

For the man who makes my soul blossom...

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.

Unknown

I usually don't like to post thoughts unless there is a source; however this one seemed appropriate for today. 

Happy Anniversary, Handsome!

I know life has been feeling like a constant detour, 

but at least we enjoy the scenery.

I wouldn't want to enjoy it with anyone else.

I love you!

xoxo

Happy Father's Day!

Because He came to earth, we have a perfect example to follow. As we strive to become more like Him, we will have joy and happiness in our lives and peace each day of the year.

Thomas S. Monson

Because He Came...

Usefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

Lydia Maria Child

Be useful today.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Mildred Barthel

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

...And anyway, why should the creature be happy?

C.S. Lewis 

The Screwtape Letters

Indeed, why should we be happy? Do we really deserve it anyway? 

(I love the devil's advocate sometimes.)

Do not forget no matter how much you may give in money, no matter how you may desire the things of this world to make yourselves happy, your happiness will be in proportion to your charity and to your kindness and to your love of those with whom you associate here on earth.

George Albert Smith

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

James Barrie

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Diller

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Andy Rooney

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

William Shakespeare

Find reasons to smile no matter what.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.

Charles Gordy

To press on in noble endeavors, even while surrounded by a cloud of depression, will eventually bring you out on top into the sunshine.

Ezra Taft Benson

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

Jim Beggs

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

W.C. Fields

Perhaps the best advice...

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

Francoise de Motteville

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Jung

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

George Lorimer

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

The more closely you follow divine guidance, the greater will be your happiness here and for eternity-- moreover, the most abundant your progress and capacity to serve. I do not understand fully how it is done, but that guidance in your life does not take away your agency. You can make the decisions you choose to make. But remember, the disposition to do right brings peace of mind and happiness.

Richard G. Scott

"The disposition to do right brings peace of mind and happiness." 

It deserved to be said again.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Roosevelt

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

So on this start to a holiday weekend, what will be your activity?

Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs.

Michael Levine

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen

Cheers to you on this fine Wednesday.

What is happiness but the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus

Happiness is inward and not outward, and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

...coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, not does demeaning someone else improve your self image. So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Og Mandino

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Walters

To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

Chuang Tzu

Be constant, you'll be happy. 

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Stephen Covey

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

As you do these things [referring to the standards discussed in the LDS "For the Strength of Youth" pamphlet], the Lord will make much more out of your life than you can by yourself. He will increase your opportunities, expand your vision, and strengthen you. He will give you the help you need to meet your trials and challenges. You will gain a stronger testimony and find true joy as you come to know your Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ, and feel Their love for you.

The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

While this pamphlet has definitely experienced many changes over the years, the basic idea is the same. Live worthy of being in God's presence and you will be happy. 

I know this quote isn't very "Mother's Day"-y; however, I wanted to make the connection. I have been blessed with incredible women, not just the woman who gave birth to me, who have taught me exactly what it means to be a righteous woman. From young women leaders to neighbors, friends' mothers to aunts, grandmothers to my own sister. These plus my own incredible mom, have paved the way for me to follow. 

Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.

Jim Rohn

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Booker T. Washington

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

Samuel Goldwyn

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter when people tell you This is what is following your bliss.

Joseph Campbell

Happiness consists in activity ... it is a running stream not a stagnant pool.

John Mason

Are you a stream or a pool?

Our Father, God of all creation, hear us pray in reverence, awed by thy Son's sacrifice. Praises we sing, we love thy law; we will obey. Our heavenly King, in thee our hearts rejoice.

Edward L. Hart

Happiness blooms in the presence of self-respect and the absence of ego.

Love yourself.

Love everyone around you.

Love everyone in the whole world.

Know that your own life is of infinite importance, as is every other life.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

Paramahansa Yogananda

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

Robert Muller

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Jesus wants me to be loving, and kind to all I see, showing how pleasant and happy His little one can be.

Nellie Talbot

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Morris West

Whatever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Engineer, Dad, Mom, Wife, Husband, Friend, Sister, Brother, Cousin, Aunt, Uncle, Grandparent, Manager, Scientist, Teacher, Accountant, Writer, Reader, Photographer, Dancer, Artist, Caregiver, Juggler, Jogger, Jazzercizer. Whatever you are, whatever you do, be good.  

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You've got to accentuate the positive

Eliminate the negative

Latch on to the affirmative

Don't mess with Mister In-Between

You've got to spread joy up to the maximum

Bring gloom down to the minimum

Have faith or pandemonium

Liable to walk upon the scene

Johnny Mercer

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

Victoria Holt

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon Joseph Suenens

You can live a happy life in this world of toil and strife if there's sunshine in your heart; And your soul will glow with love from the perfect Light above, if there's sunshine in your heart today.

Helen Silcott Dungan

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving;

Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.

Amanda Bradley

Mine is the sunlight! Mine is the morning

Born of the one light Eden saw play!

Praise with elation, praise ev'ry morning,

God's recreation of a new day!

Eleanor Farjean

Life, believe, is not a dream so dark, as sages say; Oft a little morning rain foretells a pleasant day.

Charlotte Bronte

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are: Something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Karl Marx

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

Publilius Syrus

The sure way to peace and happiness in this life and life hereafter is to serve the Lord today and every day.

Marion G. Romney

He who laughs, lasts.

Dr. Robert Anthony

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from domination of outside conditions.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this Earth and endowed with freedom.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you but on what happens inside of you.

Harold B. Lee

On this Easter Morning, let us let Christ into our lives and let Him transform the inside so that the outside, our countenance, takes on His image. 

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

J. Donald Walters

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucious

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Benjamin Franklin

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Bob Hope

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Psalms 119:103

Repentance is ever the key to a better, happier life.

Spencer W. Kimball

Happy Conference Weekend! Where we all get reminders of the things we need to correct and the things we are great at... here's to repentance, we would be nothing without it!

The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.

Brian Tracy

The last few days have been quotes about relationships and happiness. I firmly believe we all need good relationships. Some relationships take more work, some don't. Some relationships should be cultivated, while others shouldn't. It is important to figure out how to be happy and what makes you happiest!

Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.

Brian Tracy

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

Brian Tracy

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

The most important choice we make every day is whether we'll be happy or disgruntled about the life we live. Whatever we do, we always have the choice. Even the person working for a minimum wage at some fast food place has a choice about whether to enjoy her work and treat customers with a smile and joyful presentation, or to be grumpy and begrudge every moment. While the low paying job is a fact, the attitude we choose is a variable.

Marie T. Russell

Heavenly Father is able to accomplish these two great goals -- the immortality and eternal life of man -- because He is a God of creation and compassion. Creating and being compassionate are two objectives that contribute to our Heavenly Father's perfect happiness. Creating and being compassionate are two activities that we are His spirit children can and should emulate.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Happiness, Your Heritage given by Dieter F. Uchtdorf during the General Relief Society Meeting in October of 2008. Indeed happiness is our heritage, men and women alike. And it is our job to figure out how to experience it in this life so that we may experience it in the eternities.

Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

Fulton Sheen

"You were made for perfect happiness." I love that!  Time to claim what we were made for.

It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness.

William James

Not sure I entirely agree with Mr. James here, but I do believe strongly in the power of positive thinking. Positive thinking combined with a testimony of Christ and that I believe in the superstructure of happiness.

You might be poor, and unhappy; but become suddenly rich, and you will still be unhappy.

Rick Beneteau

And good reminder that money isn't everything, happiness is. (And there is nothing wrong with being rich and happy, just make sure you are poor and happy first.)

Happiness.. resides not in possessions, and not in gold, but the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

How is your soul doing today?

If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.

Earl Nightingale

And, finding there was greater happiness and peace and rest for me, I sought for the blessings of the fathers, and the right whereunto I should be ordained to administer the same; having been myself a follower of righteousness, desiring also to be one who possessed great knowledge, and to be a greater follower of righteousness, and to possess a greater knowledge, and to be a father of many nations, a prince of peace, and desiring to receive instructions, and to keep the commandments of God, I became a rightful heir, a High Priest, holding the right belonging to the fathers.

Abraham 1:2

Seek to know what your individualized Plan of Happiness includes and then live for it. There is a Plan and within that Plan we can all expect to find happiness through our righteousness. 

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

According to this fellow, happiness is like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Happy St. Patty's Day! 

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

Earl Nightingale

Money like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.

Dr. Wayne Dyer

Live with purpose.

Happiness comes from good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

We all can think of times we were wrong or felt we had cause to be sad, this would be a good time to forget. Move forward. If you don't have good health, get it. And experience the happiness that comes from a life progressing in a healthy way.

Happy Pi Day!  Happiness comes from eating PIE!!!

Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

Dalai Lama

Both of which can be tricky at times.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

You don't have to be dull to be happy, just prudent.

Our yearnings for happiness were implanted in our hearts by Deity. They represent a kind of homesickness, for we have a residual memory of our premortal existence. They are also a foretaste of the fullness of joy that is promised to the faithful. We can expect with perfect faith that our Father will fulfill our innermost longings for joy.

Jack H. Goaslind

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

Anyone can be happy. So if you aren't, why not?

You are only ever unhappy when you focus upon what you don't have.

Patrick Combs

Think of all the beauty still left around you, and be happy.

Anne Frank

Experience praises the most happy, the one who made the most people happy.

Karl Marx

Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.

Sri Chinmoy

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

Well said.

And it came to pass that we lived after the manner of happiness.

2 Nephi 5:27

A worthy goal to shoot for today, tomorrow, the next day, and the day after that. Maybe after four tries it won't be a goal anymore but just your life.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Dale Carnegie

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Maybe we are meant to do something exciting on Leap Day...

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

So the word "happy" doesn't appear in this one, but you could certainly create yourself in the image of Happiness.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Robert Anthony

Both fun and happiness are fine, but certainly happiness is the most worth seeking. Happiness can encompass fun as well, but fun alone will not assure us true happiness.

Claudio R.M. Costa

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Create your own happiness.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you've imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton

Live your life well and happiness will be there. Obsess about it and you'll be a bore.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

Cynthia Nelms

Blunt. 

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. 

Robertson Davies

As one of my professors once taught me, being smart is just being low on the dumb scale. So perhaps being happy is just being low on the unhappy scale. (aka Happiness and Unhappiness are made up of the same "stuff" it is just how much of the "stuff" you have.)

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness of have gone stark raving mad. 

Norm Papernick

And it came to pass that there was no contention in the land, because of the love of God which did dwell in the hearts of the people. And there were no envyings, nor strifes, nor tumults, nor whoredoms, nor lyings, nor murders, nor any manner of lasciviousness; and surely there could not be a happier people among all the people who had been created by the hand of God.

4 Nephi 1:15-16

I need to work on that whole no contention business. I dare say a good majority of us need to...

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

James Openheim

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

H. Jackson Brown

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C.S. Lewis

So on this the 14th of February, when we all take a moment to celebrate love, remember that it is the affection and love you have for those around you that can contribute the most to your happiness. 

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.

Hazelmarie Elliott

If you aren't happy, you are sad... is there really no middle ground? Perhaps not.

Happiness is the object of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.

Joseph Smith

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Perhaps this is true because happiness isn't a one size fits most or all... it is individual... think of it as a custom made dress, not the size 6 off the rack.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life -- to be happy -- it's all that matters.

Audrey Hepburn

Happiness really is all that matters... how many of us make that our daily goal -- to be happy? To work for it, not wait for it, each day.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Anne Frank

Such amazing words from someone who lived a life of struggle and triumph. Perhaps we can all look to Miss Frank, a child faced with terrible adult things, and learn from her perspective.

And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

Psalms 35:9

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Frederick Koenig

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.

Buddha

All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy. All misery comes from the desire for oneself to be happy.

Shantideva

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things

Henry Ward Beecher

Common things that make me happy lately: crockpots, books, clean sheets, a new toothbrush, smiles, laughs, clean diapers, naps, dancing, normal working hours

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

Henri Nouwen

If we aren't happy, of what use is the gospel, the Church and its organizations, programs, and the way of life it espouses? Moroni stresses the importance of being happy during this phase of our eternal existence by describing the judgment: "And then cometh the judgment of the Holy One upon them; and then cometh the time that he that is filthy shall be filthy still; and he that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is happy shall be happy still; and he that is unhappy shall be unhappy still." 

Elder Marlin K. Jensen

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Tina Turner

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

William Feather

Note: Don't put yourself in this category.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara DeAngelis

While sometimes it is "easier" to play the victim, it is nice to know the power we do have over our own lives.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Aristotle

Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God; For, behold, the Lord your Redeemer suffered death in the flesh; wherefore he suffered the pain of all men, that all men might repent and come unto him. And he hath risen again from the dead that he might bring all men unto him, on conditions of repentance. And how great is his joy in the soul that repenteth! Wherefore, you are called to cry repentance until this people. And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance until this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father! And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!

Doctrine and Covenants 18:10-16

I like to think that the first soul, or that one soul, we bring to God is our own. We still spend our days sharing the Gospel with others, but the biggest difference will be made in our own life.