Regina Brett Quotes
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Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
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Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
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Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.
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From now on, I pray like I mean it. No more hitting SEND over and over. It's changed my life. It has freed me from fear and opened up endless avenues for me as a writer, radio host, parent, wife, and friend. It has enhanced every relationship I'm in, starting with the most important one: my relationship with God. Real faith isn't praying without ceasing. It's believing that God heard you the first time.
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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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Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
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Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
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Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
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No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
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Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
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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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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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Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.