"The first to apologize is the bravest.  The first to forgive is the strongest.  The first to forget is the happiest."

as published in Guideposts magazine, May 2014, p. 15 volume 69, issue 3, submitted by reader Melanie Samoy-Lutz

David O. McKay

Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that the power to work is a blessing, that the love of work is success.

Teachings of David O. McKay

Gospel Principles

To some people work is a drudgery.  To others it is an exciting part of life.  One way to enjoy life's fullest benefits is to learn to love work.  Not all of us can choose the kind of work we do.  Some of us labor for long hours... it is difficult to enjoy such work.  Yet the happiest people have learned to enjoy their work, whatever it is.  We can help one another in our work.  The heaviest load becomes lighter when someone shares it.
Our attitude toward work is very important.  ... A traveler passed a stone quarry and saw three men working. He asked each man what he was doing.  Each man's answer revealed a different attitude towards the same job.  "I am cutting stone," the first man answered.
The second replied, "I am earning three gold pieces a day."
The third man smiled and said, "I am helping to build a house of God."

Gospel Principles, ch. 27 Work and Personal Responsibility

Spencer W. Kimball

While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every person. “Soul mates” are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.

Spencer W. Kimball, “Oneness in Marriage,” Ensign, Oct 2002, 40 

Adapted from a devotional address given at Brigham Young University on 7 September 1976. The full text is published in a Deseret Book Company book, Marriage and Divorce.

N. Eldon Tanner

The happy home is one where the family lives together, works together, plays together, and prays together; where the parents show love and courtesy and demonstrate it to each other. Love is expressed often through actions and by the spoken word. We should not be like the Scotsman who, at the death of his wife, was receiving expressions of sympathy from his friends. One neighbor commented on what a fine person she was. Jock replied, “Aye, she was a good woman, and I came near telling her so once or twice.”

N. Eldon Tanner, “Celestial Marriages and Eternal Families,” Ensign, May 1980, 15

Jeffrey R. Holland

...negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking, including negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak—or at least think—critically of ourselves, and before long that is how we see everyone and everything. No sunshine, no roses, no promise of hope or happiness. Before long we and everybody around us are miserable… We should honor the Savior’s declaration to “be of good cheer.” (Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!) Speak hopefully. Speak encouragingly, including about yourself

Jeffrey R. Holland, “The Tongue of Angels,” Ensign, May 2007, 16–18

Harold B. Lee

Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you but on what happens inside of you. It is measured by the spirit with which you meet the problems of life.
Harold B. Lee, "A Sure Trumpet Sound: Quotations from President Lee,” Ensign, Feb. 1974, 78.