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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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Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Ravenna
Ohio
Showing
Best
Life
Varies
Vary

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If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
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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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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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Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
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Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
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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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Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.
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Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
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Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
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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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However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
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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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When in doubt, take the next step.
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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
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