Staying positive doesn't mean being happy all the time. It just means that even on the hard days, you trust that better ones are on the way.
Quotes
Collection of quotesOne of the fondest memories of my Granddad Nelson was trading quotes regularly over email. Sadly I lost the email archive when I went on my mission, but it has continued to be an interest of mine. I hope you enjoy my collection of quotes. A bit of everything from religion to politics to leadership.
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2026-07-05 10:32:38
A Buddhist monk asked his students — If you’re carrying a cup of coffee and someone bumps into you, why did you spill the coffee?
Each and every one of his students said because someone bumped into me.
No, he said, the reason why you spilled the coffee is because that’s what you were carrying in your cup. If you were carrying water, you would have spilled water.
Then he said something profound.
Whenever life shakes you, whatever you’re carrying is going to spill out.
So if you’re carrying fear, jealousy, anger, greed, that’s what’s going to spill out.
But if you’re carrying love, compassion, kindness, that’s what’s going to spill out.
So, each and every day, you should pause and think to yourself, What am I carrying in my cup today? -
2026-07-04 13:05:05
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cores of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people and is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.