Deborah Norville Quotes

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Deborah Norville

Profession : Journalist

Birth : August 8, 1958

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Deborah Norville

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

Deborah Norville

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

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What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

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There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

Deborah Norville

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

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There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

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The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

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So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

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I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

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I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.

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It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.

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If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.

Deborah Norville

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

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I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

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So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

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'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

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There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

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I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

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My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

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