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Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Regina Brett

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Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Ravenna
Ohio
Gift
Stills
Still
Life
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Tied

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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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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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Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
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Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
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Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
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God never gives us more than what we can carry.
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Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
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To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.
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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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A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
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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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Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
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It's OK to let your children see you cry.
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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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A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.
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When in doubt, take the next step.
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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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I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.
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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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