Mary Engelbreit Quotes

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

Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.

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

There's no better friend than a sister.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

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.

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

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

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

Bloom where you are planted!

Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.

Life is too short to dust every week.

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

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.

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

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!

Everyday life inspires me, the situations that we all find ourselves in at one time or another.

Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

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

Time flies whether you are having fun or not.

Life is too short to sleep it all away!

Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!

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

My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

I have been trying to get the hang of not being proud but instead turning that into thankfulness. Really whatever we have to be proud about, it is something given to us by the Lord.

I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

I like to draw late at night when the house is quiet.

Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.

Life is too short to not tell every one you know about Jesus. I need to practice this more.

Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.

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

Just being able to express myself and reach so many other people by doing so is really great!

Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity!

if you don't like something change it and if you cannot change it, change the way you you think about it.

It's just a bad day, not a bad life.