Regina Brett (born May 31, 1956) is an American author, inspirational speaker and newspaper columnist currently writing for The Cleveland Jewish News. Her columns are syndicated through Jewish News Service.
If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
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.
Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.
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?
There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.
Forgive everyone everything.
Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
God never gives us more than what we can carry.
Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.
There were two kinds of women: those who wear nail polish and those who don't. Which do you prefer?
Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.
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.
There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.
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.
We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.
Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.
Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.