Pain is inevitable...

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Zen Proverb
Sometimes attributed to Sheng-ts'an

Variations:
"Pain is inevitable, misery is optional."
"Pain is inevitable, misery is not."

Conversion is...

“Testimony is to know and to feel, conversion is to do and to become.”

-Elder Dallin H. Oaks, as quoted by By Elder Kenneth Johnson, Ensign, Jul 2008, 28–31

An ideal marriage...

"An ideal marriage is a true partnership between two imperfect people, each striving to complement the other, to keep the commandments, and to do the will of the Lord."

—Elder Russell M. Nelson, Ensign, May 1999, 39

He intended the greatest of happiness...

"God is the designer of the family. He intended that the greatest of happiness, the most satisfying aspects of life, the deepest joys should come in our associations together and our concerns one for another as fathers and mothers and children."

President Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, May 1991

Happiness...is the design of our existence...

"Happiness is the object and design 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, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sel. by Joseph Fielding Smith, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1938, pp. 255–56.)

The home is the laboratory...

"The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there."

—President Thomas S. Monson, Ensign, Nov. 1988, 69

C. S. Lewis on the value of housework...

"A housewife's work...is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government, etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes?... We wage war in order to have peace, we work in order to have leisure, we produce food in order to eat it. So your job is the one for which all others exist,"

Letters of C. S. Lewis, London: Godfrey Publishing Company, 262.