Debbie Macomber famous quotes

Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Gratitude #Attitude #Generosity

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Loss #Our World #Order

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Envy #Water #Bills

The best way to get even is to forget.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Way #Forget

Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Wall #Doors #Should

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Fleeting #Found Love #Found

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Heart #Family And Friends #Lost

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle
-- Debbie Macomber

#People #Miracle #Church

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Fear #Doubt

While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Life Changing #Simple #Offering

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!
-- Debbie Macomber

#Book #Inspiration #Romance

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Horse #Grandpa #Bulls

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Teacher #School #Said

Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Careers #Four #Way

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Romance #Important #Emotion

First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Mean #Careers #People

I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Mean #Yarn #Three

I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.
-- Debbie Macomber

#School #College #Opportunity

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Children #Wall #Names

I love the way knitting brings people together.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Knitting #People #Together

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Birthday #Husband #Years

She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Said #Interruptions

Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Real #Generosity #Giving

Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.
-- Debbie Macomber

God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate. Mrs. Miracle
-- Debbie Macomber

#Angel #Wings #Miracle

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle
-- Debbie Macomber

#Miracle #Self Pity #Pity

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle
-- Debbie Macomber

#Miracle #Heaven #Earth

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Mistake #Moving #Moving Forward

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Thinking #Want #Sometimes

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Heart #Want

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.
-- Debbie Macomber

#Kindness #Emotional #Deeds