• “It’s hard enough to make changes when we want to, but to try to make someone else change when he or she doesn’t want to is impossible, and it can ruin a good friendship.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 56
  • “Don’t delay your own prosperity by being resentful or jealous that someone else has more than you. Don’t criticize the way they choose to spend their money. It is none of your business. Each person is under the law of his or her own consciousness. Just take care of your own thoughts. Bless another’s good fortune, and know there is plenty for all.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 117
  • “Consider the path the wealth holder has been on before they get to the planning table.  When self-made people begin to achieve affluence, everything changes in their friendship dynamics.  They find themselves with a little safe haven to let their guard down about life, wealth, and family; about personal progress or demons.  Their friends can’t afford to do the things they do and they can’t empathize with the wealth holder’s family or business issues.” The Right Side of the Table:  Where do You Sit in the Minds of the Affluent? By Scott Fithian and Todd Fithian.  Page72
  • “Listening “is the most powerful force we know for altering the basic personality structure of an individual and improving his relationships and communication with others. If I can listen to what he can tell me if I can understand how it seems to him if I can see its personal meaning for him if I can sense the emotional flavor it has for him, then I will be releasing a potent force in him.”—Rogers, On Becoming a Person
  • “As my father wrote years ago, “To be really rich is to be rich in achievement, rich in experience, and rich in friendship.” Wealth in Families Third Edition (Charles W. Collier) Page 11
  • “It’s important to let your true self shine and to share your true gifts with the world. The beauty that dwells in your mind and that comes from your unique perspective on life needs to be heard. You will suffer criticism. But their opinions don’t matter, because you have to be you. By being you, you will attract the right people into your life and repel the wrong people, so that soon you will be predominantly surrounded by those who love you for who you are.”   It Starts With You: The 3 Great Thoughts That Can Change Your Life By George Sourrys May 23, 2017, https://www.goalcast.com/2017/05/23/it-starts-with-you-the-3-great-thoughts-that-can-change-your-life/
  • “Definition of a friend: someone who says nice things about you when you aren’t around.” Charlie Brown
  • “It is a wonderful pleasure to speak upon the great things that God proposes to bestow upon His sons and daughters, and that we shall attain to if we are faithful. … Our travel in this path of exaltation will bring to us the fullness of our Lord Jesus Christ, to stand in the presence of our Father, to receive of His fullness, to have the pleasure of increasing in our posterity worlds without end, to enjoy those pleasant associations that we have had in this life, to have our sons and our daughters, our husbands and our wives, surrounded with all the enjoyment that heaven can bestow, our bodies glorified like unto the Savior’s, free from disease and all the ills of life, and free from the disappointments and vexations and the unpleasant sacrifices that we are making here”  Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Lorenzo Snow, 2011, Page 8
  • 2 Nephi 33:7…  I have charity for my people and great faith in Christ that I shall meet many souls spotless at his judgment seat.
  • “Stay close to the people who feel like sunshine.” -Oliveaveboutique
  • “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time” Maya Angelou
  • “[Empathy] is defined as ‘the action of understanding…and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of another. With so much pain and despondency, so much hopelessness, one thing we certainly ought to try to give [each person we serve] is the reassurance he is not alone. We should be adamant in stressing that God is with him, angels are with him, and we are with him. Empathy. Sounds pretty inadequate, but it is a place to start. We may not be able to alter the journey, but we can make sure no one walks it alone.”  – Jeffrey R. Holland
  • “Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. Genuine empathy brings people together; it sparks connections and helps people feel they are not alone.”  Chad Webb, Administrator for Seminaries and Institute for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints