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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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Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
Columnist
Journalist
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Ravenna
Ohio
Dna
Imagine
Family
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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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Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
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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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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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Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
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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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Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
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Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
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Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
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God never gives us more than what we can carry.
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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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Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
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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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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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Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.
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There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.
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We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.
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Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
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