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Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

Regina Brett

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Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Ravenna
Ohio
Beautiful
Anything
Joyful
Useful
Simplicity

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When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
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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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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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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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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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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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Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
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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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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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Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
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Forgive everyone everything.
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Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.
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Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.
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Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
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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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Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
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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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