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A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

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Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
Columnist
Journalist
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Ravenna
Ohio
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It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and then another. That's what it takes to raise a child, to get a degree, to write a book, to do whatever it is your heart desires.
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Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
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Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
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We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.
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Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
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Forgive everyone everything.
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The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.
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The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.
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When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
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We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.
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Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.
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Choas will come, calm will follow, and then it will start up all over again. The secret is to savor the ride.
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Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
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It's OK to let your children see you cry.
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God never gives us more than what we can carry.
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Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.
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To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.
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Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
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No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
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