Regina Brett Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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.

Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

When in doubt, take the next step.

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

Forgive everyone everything.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

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

Over prepare, then go with the flow.

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

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

There were two kinds of women: those who wear nail polish and those who don't. Which do you prefer?