Marjorie Pay Hinckley Quotes

#1. Everything you are learning is preparing you for something else.

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#2. You can't take life too seriously. You just have to laugh your way through it.

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#3. How did a nice girl like me get into a mess like this?

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#4. Complete abstention may be much easier than moderation.

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#5. The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful.

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#6. The beautiful thing
perhaps the thing I love most about the gospel
is that everything we learn we can use and take with us and use it again. No bit of knowledge goes wasted. Everything you are learning now is preparing you for something else. Did you know that? What a concept!

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#7. The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life!

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#8. There are some years in our lives that we would not want to live again. But even these years will pass away, and the lessons learned will be a future blessing.

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#9. True spirituality makes you loving and grateful, and forgiving, and patient, and gentle, and long-suffering. True spirituality breathes reverence into every act and deed.

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#10. 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.

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#11. Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the enviroment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.

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#12. With intellectual curiosity the world will always be full of magic and wonder.

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#13. Thank you' is a wonderful phrase. Use it. It will add stature to your soul.

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#14. People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting, something that can make your life richer.

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#15. Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few. -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.

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#16. The trouble with the world and the trouble with you and me is that we don't love each other enough. And if we do, we don't bother to show it, or we don't bother to say it. If the world is to know love, it has to be in your heart and in mine.

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#17. As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think of your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey.

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#18. The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

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#19. We each do the best we can. My best may not be as good as your best, but it's my best. The fact is we know when we are doing our best and when we are not. If we are not doing our best, it leaves us with a gnawing hunger and frustration. But when we do our best, we experience a peace.

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#20. Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.

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#21. 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.

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#22. For it is not requisite that a woman should hobble faster than she has strength!

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