Content With What We Are

"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

"We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives.

We have to decide what is important and

then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us.

We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something.

We have to learn to be content with what we are." - Marjorie Pay Hinckley