Quote

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.

Regina Brett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Ravenna
Ohio
Story
Often
Someone
Invested
Stories
Villain
Character
Sympathy
Must
Victim
Love
Characters
Attention

More quotes by Regina Brett

Image
If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
Regina Brett
Image
Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
Regina Brett
Image
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.
Regina Brett
Image
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.
Regina Brett
Image
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.
Regina Brett
Image
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.
Regina Brett
Image
Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.
Regina Brett
Image
Forgive everyone everything.
Regina Brett
Image
God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
Regina Brett
Image
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
Regina Brett
Image
Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
Regina Brett
Image
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
Regina Brett
Image
Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
Regina Brett
Image
When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
Regina Brett
Image
Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
Regina Brett
Image
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.
Regina Brett
Image
Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
Regina Brett
Image
No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
Regina Brett
Image
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.
Regina Brett
Image
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.
Regina Brett