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It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

Regina Brett

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Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
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Journalist
Writer
Ravenna
Ohio
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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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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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When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
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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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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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Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
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Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
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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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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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Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.
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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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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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If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
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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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A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
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Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
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Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
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We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.
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It's OK to let your children see you cry.
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Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
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