Mary Engelbreit Quotes

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.

So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

Bloom where you are planted!

Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

Time flies whether you are having fun or not.

Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.

Life is too short to dust every week.

If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.

There's no better friend than a sister.

Life is too short to be safe and sit still and do nothing. Unless of course that is what God has for you to do in a particular place in your life.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

When you go through a process of #1 praying daily and staying in God's word #2 obey Him in the small decisions every day #3 ask advice from a number of spiritual counselors then you can step out peacefully knowing that pleasing God is all that matters. America was built on this attitude.

Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

The only thing I know for sure about the creative process is it always comes back. Magically. When there are no creative juices and nothing is coming to me - if I wait - it comes!

A constant FRIEND is a thing rare and hard to find.

When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone.

Even when sisters are different... Their likeness comes shining through!

Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity!

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.

Anything good that we do is because of God. Whenever we get our eyes off of Him we crash and burn.

We should see dreaming as one of our responsibilitie s, rather than an alternative to one.