Quotes from Marjorie Pay Hinckley.

These quotes from Marjorie Pay Hinckley are some of my FAVORITES:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/226482.Marjorie_Pay_Hinckley

This one was quoted by our stake president on Sunday, and I love the image of "locking arms" with one another.  Beautiful.

“We are all in this together. We need each other. Oh, how we need each other. Those of us who are old need you who are young, and hopefully, you who are young need some of us who are old...We need deep and satisfying and loyal friendships with each other. These friendships are a necessary source of sustenance. We need to renew our faith every day. We need to lock arms and help build the kingdom so that it will roll forth and fill the whole earth.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley


And this one is something I need to read every day.  I have no make-up on today, my toenails haven't been painted in over a year.  I badly need a haircut.  And I know that it's important to take care of ourselves and to look lovely.  But things have been busy.  And I haven't even noticed my appearance because I've been so focused on taking care of everyone else.

But I'm living!

“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