Mary Engelbreit Quotes
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Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.
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Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.
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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.
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If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.
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Life's too mysterious to take too serious.
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I am extremely thankful for my family. I am very thankful for what God is allowing me to do artistically. What a dream come true for me! That I get the opportunity every single day to use my talent for His glory.
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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.
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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.
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Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.
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Bloom where you are planted!
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.
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Anything good that we do is because of God. Whenever we get our eyes off of Him we crash and burn.
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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.
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A constant FRIEND is a thing rare and hard to find.
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Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.
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Time flies whether you are having fun or not.
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Life is too short to dust every week.
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Everyday life inspires me, the situations that we all find ourselves in at one time or another.
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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!
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Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity!
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If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it
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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.
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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.
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There are some people who want me and my husband to stay where it is safe and draw a paycheck every week instead of what we are doing (which is creating and sharing our art with others). The truth is that there are people in this world - Dave and I being two - who would die a slow painful death if stuck in an office and made to do the kind of work that we are not made to do.
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Even when sisters are different... Their likeness comes shining through!
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Life is too short to sleep it all away!
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Part of my passion for all things Christmas is seeing my holiday stuff again every December. I suppose I do have more than most folks, so the reunion each winter keeps me in the holiday spirit for a full year. And there are always a few pieces out in my house whatever the month.
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Life is too short to not tell every one you know about Jesus. I need to practice this more.
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One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
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I like to draw late at night when the house is quiet.
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