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It's OK to let your children see you cry.

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Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Ravenna
Ohio
Cry
Children

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A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.
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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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Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.
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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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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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Forgive everyone everything.
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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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Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
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Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
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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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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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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
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Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
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However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
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Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
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Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
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No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
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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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