I was reading a book with a compilation of stories from Marjorie Pay Hinkley's (Gordon B. Hinkley's wife) life a little over 6 months ago. I loved every single story she had in there! She was truly a remarkable woman!
Well, I came across a quote of her's on LDS Living and decided to look up some more of her quotes because you know, I don't have homework to do ;)
Here are some of my favorites:
This is seriously my new life motto:
“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“Think about your particular assignment at this time in your life. It may be to get an education, it may be to rear children, it may be to be a grandparent, it may be to care for an relieve the suffering of someone you love, it may be to do a job in the most excellent way possible, it may be to support someone who has a difficult assignment of their own. Our assignments are varied and they change from time to time. Don't take them lightly. Give them your full heart and energy. Do them with enthusiasm. Do whatever you have to do this week with your whole heart and soul. To do less than this will leave you with an empty feeling.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Small and Simple Things
HAhaha ok this one is the bomb:
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow what a ride!”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“Develop some intellectual curiosity. If you have it, you will never be bored. If you haven't, cultivate it, hold fast to it. Never let it go. To the intellectually curious, the world will always be full of magic, full of wonder. You will be interesting to your friends, to your spouse, and a joy to your children. You will be alive to all the wonderful possibilities of this world.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
And one last amazing quote:
“I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.
I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.
I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.
I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.
I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.
I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
The above quote you credit Sister Hinckley with is actually from Hunter Thompason's book. He wrote it.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Glad to attribute it, but I'm still glad she passed it on and taught me to consider. I think her perspective a little more illustrated by personal example than the access I would have to his. I also am inclined to believe that it was conveyed with more of a sense of the reception on other end.
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