1. “Happiness must be grown in one’s own garden. ” – Mary Engelbreit
2. “The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.” – Mary Engelbreit
3. “Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.” – Mary Engelbreit
4. “Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.” – Mary Engelbreit
5. “Open your heart – open it wide; someone is standing outside.” – Mary Engelbreit
6. “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.” – Mary Engelbreit
7. “Friend is a gift you give yourself.” – Mary Engelbreit
8. “Time flies whether you are having fun or not.” – Mary Engelbreit
9. “We don’t care how they do it in New York.” – Mary Engelbreit
10. “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.” – Mary Engelbreit
11. “If you can’t change it.. change the way you think about it” – Mary Engelbreit
12. “If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.” – Mary Engelbreit
13. “Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.” – Mary Engelbreit
14. “Just being able to express myself and reach so many other people by doing so is really great!” – Mary Engelbreit
15. “If you don’t like something change it, if you can’t change it , change the way you think about it” – Mary Engelbreit
16. “A constant FRIEND is a thing rare and hard to find.” – Mary Engelbreit
17. “One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.” – Mary Engelbreit
18. “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!” – Mary Engelbreit
19. “Don’t let anyone drive you crazy. It’s right nearby anyway, and the walk will do you good.” – Mary Engelbreit
20. “I like to draw late at night when the house is quiet.” – Mary Engelbreit
21. “We should see dreaming as one of our responsibilitie s, rather than an alternative to one.” – Mary Engelbreit
22. “There’s no better friend than a sister.” – Mary Engelbreit
23. “Anything good that we do is because of God. Whenever we get our eyes off of Him we crash and burn.” – Mary Engelbreit
24. “It’s just a bad day, not a bad life.” – Mary Engelbreit
25. “Life is too short to dust every week.” – Mary Engelbreit
26. “Life is too short to not tell every one you know about Jesus. I need to practice this more.” – Mary Engelbreit
27. “Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.” – Mary Engelbreit
28. “Life’s too mysterious to take too seriously.” – Mary Engelbreit
29. “Everyday life inspires me, the situations that we all find ourselves in at one time or another.” – Mary Engelbreit
30. “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” – Mary Engelbreit
31. “Bloom where you are planted!” – Mary Engelbreit
32. “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.” – Mary Engelbreit
33. “Don’t look back – you’re not going that way.” – Mary Engelbreit
34. “Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.” – Mary Engelbreit
35. “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.” – Mary Engelbreit
36. “Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity!” – Mary Engelbreit
37. “Endure, and keep yourself for days of happiness.” – Mary Engelbreit
38. “Friendship needs no reason!” – Mary Engelbreit
39. “Wherever you go, there you are!” – Mary Engelbreit
40. “Life is just a chair of bowlies” – Mary Engelbreit
41. “Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.” – Mary Engelbreit
42. “If your ship hasn’t come in, swim out to it.” – Mary Engelbreit
43. “Ah! How good it feels the hand of an old friend.” – Mary Engelbreit
44. “Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.” – Mary Engelbreit
45. “A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life.” – Mary Engelbreit
46. “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.” – Mary Engelbreit
47. “Every calling is great when greatly pursued.” – Mary Engelbreit