40 Regina Brett Quotes for You to Enjoy

Regina Brett

American Journalist

Born: May 31, 1956

Day Life Love Me Time You

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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. Regina Brett

Depression Loneliness Day Anger Fear Sadness Challenge Too Much Face Pain Too Eye Stay Some Small Horse Take Put Days Hour Like Hours Piece Pieces Blinders Up Handle Task Hands Break Much Next Moment Illness Each Actually

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

You Conversation People Sometimes Remember Old Picture Looking Big Become Down Everyone Focused Eye Eye Contact Stay Had Contact Device Days Disconnect Forget Hands Big Picture Front Tiny Screen Old Days Us Connected Right

If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can. Regina Brett

You Celebrate Enough Visit Still Cherish While Them Grandparents Lucky

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

Life Day Bad Day Bad No-One Just Really Moments Even

Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come. Regina Brett

Future Day Morning Heart Gift Thanks Every Say Never Open Open Arms Come Arms Left Precious Precious Gift May Greet Full Used Each Each Day Every Night Night

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. 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

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

God Change Everything Worry Eye Never Blink

My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the position you were in. Whenever something happened, I'd freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, of making the wrong decision. The problem is, if you stand still too long, that's your decision. Regina Brett

Life You Game Problem Decision My Life Long Too Once Way Kids Statue Something Tag Tagged Had Wrong Wrong Decision Wrong Way Like Freeze Making Still Were Afraid Whenever Happened Moving Stand Your Used Played Position

If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. Regina Brett

You Courage Phone Better Single Lose Sit Down Changes Enough Phone Call Paragraph Scary Write Pounds Take Step Instead Major Make Call Salad Friend Fries Order Screening Want Next Novel Right

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

Love Victim Too Sympathy Our Characters Must Someone Both Invested Attention Go Get Often Being Story Villain Let Go

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love. Regina Brett

Love You Hurt People Those Easier Than Forgive Who

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

Love Generation Baking Passed Labor Gets Any

Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies. Regina Brett

Life Time Day Me You Every Day Ugly Cancer Clothes Living Every Saving Philosophy Boring Occasion Get Stop Taught Movies Special Fullest Special Occasion Wasted Wasted Time Living Life Things Start

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile. Regina Brett

Futile Chocolate Resistance

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. Regina Brett

Life Death Me Hate People Comforting Some People Every Birth Our Find Some Dash Remind Between Reminds End Hit Place Them Pause Us Eulogy Deepen Tombstone Button Funerals

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

Relationship You Secret

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. Regina Brett

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life. Regina Brett

Sad Life Work You Joy First Way Obituaries Know Got End Up Survivors List Behind Achievements Place Clubs Social Grandkids Your Show Why Last

It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands? Regina Brett

Life Freedom Courage Fate Power Sit Our Kind Takes Another How Person Hands Jury Want Hold Decide Us Many

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. Regina Brett

It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury duty arrives in the mail, how many people scream, 'Yes!' and run to clear the calendar? None. Our first and only reaction is, 'Oh, no,' quickly followed by, 'How can I get out of this?' Regina Brett

People Rare First Met Duty Our Out Run Find Followed Someone Only Mail Never Excited Clear Over Calendar Reaction None How How Many People Yes Quickly Get Jury Jury Duty Oh Scream Them Many

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean. Regina Brett

Confession Few Gave Fathers Our Penance Easiest Clean Priest Hail Since Catholic Souls Line Private Were Prayed Led Up Stood Grew Shortest Who Saturday

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write. Regina Brett

You Write Writer Writes Want

Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable. Regina Brett

Best Myself Family Me Cancer Care Doctors Advice Before Down Books Would Take Take Care Remind Wrote Chemotherapy Friends Survivors Owner Created Manual Help Started Treatments

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