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.

Regina Brett

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No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

Regina Brett

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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.

Regina Brett

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No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.

Regina Brett

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Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

Regina Brett

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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.

Regina Brett

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Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

Regina Brett

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God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

Regina Brett

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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

Regina Brett

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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.

Regina Brett

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Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

Regina Brett

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Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

Regina Brett

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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.

Regina Brett

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Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

Regina Brett

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God never gives us more than what we can carry.

Regina Brett

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

Regina Brett

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If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

Regina Brett

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Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?

Regina Brett

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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.

Regina Brett

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

Regina Brett

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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.

Regina Brett

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