Desktop Words

These are quotes that I typed onto sticky notes on my computer desktop at various times in the last three years...most are from my time at BYU-Idaho. My desktop is a disaster as a result, so I thought I'd put them somewhere out of the way where I could find them if I needed to. Look for the ones that stand out to you as you read!

Good Financial Advice:

Pay an honest tithing

Learn to manage money

Learn self-discipline and self-restraint

Use a budget

Teach family the importance of working & earning

Teach children to save money

Teach family members to contribute to family welfare

Make education a continuing process

Work toward home ownership

Choose an insurance program

Understand the influence of external forces
Have food storage/emergency preparedness

"Despite the changes which come into our lives and with gratitude in our hearts, may we fill our days—as much as we can—with those things which matter most. May we cherish those we hold dear and express our love to them in word and in deed." ~President Thomas S. Monson

"God knows what we do not know and sees what we do not see." ~President Howard W. Hunter

2 Nephi 13:9: "The show of their countenance doth witness for them."

"The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead...For it is necessary that the sealing power should be in our hands to seal our children and our dead for the fulness of the dispensation to meet the promises made by Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world for the salvation of man." ~The Prophet Joseph Smith 

"If you have repented from serious transgression and mistakenly believe that you will always be a second-class citizen in the kingdom of God, learn that is not true." ~Elder Richard G. Scott

"Income five dollars and expenses six dollars: misery. Income four dollars and expenses three dollars: happiness." ~Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)

“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

Matthew 10:16: "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." We do not need to be aggressive to stand up against the lies of the world, but we do need to be wise and cautious to avoid being deceived.

"As a woman, please don’t judge how worthwhile, needed, and loved you are by our inept ability to express our true feelings. Your divinely conferred trait of giving of self without counting the cost leads you to underestimate your own worth." ~Elder Richard G. Scott

"Do something every day that scares you." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

D&C 98:1: "Rejoice evermore and in everything give thanks."

Jeremiah 29:13: "Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye search for me with all your heart." 

"It is better to Prepare & Prevent than to Repair and Repent." ~President Ezra Taft Benson

Devotional May 10: Elder Donald L. Hallstrom

"The duty to act is OURS."

Mosiah 2:41: "Consider the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God...they dwell with Him in a state of never-ending happiness."

New & Everlasting Covenant: The Gospel of Jesus Christ

~The Temple is a place for making/renewing covenants

~Our covenants are a blessing, not a burden. 

~Pray for the strength to live true to your covenants. 

~What really matters, is HOW we live. Not how long. 

~Firmly establishing a relationship with God (will bless our posterity)

So tell me which of these (if any) stood out to you and which is your favorite!