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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
Stills
Still
Life
Bows
Tied
Gift

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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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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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Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
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However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
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When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
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Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
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God never gives us more than what we can carry.
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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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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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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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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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When in doubt, take the next step.
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No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
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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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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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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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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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God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
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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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Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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