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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
Varies
Vary
Showing
Best
Life

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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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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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As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.
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Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
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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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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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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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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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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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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
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When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.
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Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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It's OK to let your children see you cry.
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No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
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Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
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A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.
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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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If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
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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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Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
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