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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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Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
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Ravenna
Ohio
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When in doubt, take the next step.
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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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Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
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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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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
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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 matter how I feel, I get up, dress up, and show up for life. When I do, the day always serves up more than I could have hoped for. Each day truly is a slice of heaven. Some days the slices are just smaller than others.
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No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
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Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
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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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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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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 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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It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
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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 take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
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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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