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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
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Ravenna
Ohio
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Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
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Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.
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God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
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The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.
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It's OK to let your children see you cry.
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Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.
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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
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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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Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
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Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
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Forgive everyone everything.
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Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
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It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.
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Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.
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No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
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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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We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community.
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I think of her every time I judge myself or someone else too harshly. How do we really know the worth of our work? It's not our job to judge the worth of what we offer the world, but to keep offering it regardless. You might never know the true worth of your efforts. Or it could simply be too soon to tell.
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Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.
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Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
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