Regina Brett Quotes - Page 3

• A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

  Regina Brett

  Book, Gold, Treasure

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• No matter how I feel, I get up, dress up, and show up for life. When I do, the day always serves up more than I could have hoped for. Each day truly is a slice of heaven. Some days the slices are just smaller than others.

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  Heaven, Dresses, Each Day

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• There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.

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  Inspiration, Thinking, Laughing

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Cancer, Air, Land

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• Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

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  Dying, Alternatives, Growing

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• Your children get only one childhood.

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  Inspirational, Children, Childhood

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.

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  Hug, Taste, Eating

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• It's OK to let your children see you cry.

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  Children, Cry, God Never Blinks

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exhausted from surgeries, chemo and radiation treatments. Ah, but I got to live.

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  Sick, Radiation, Size

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• As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.

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  Thinking, People, Journalism

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• Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

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  Inspirational, Letting Go, Healing

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Cancer, Scary, Might

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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.

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  Horse, Pain, Loneliness

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• God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.

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  Past, Today, Moments

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Cancer, Book, Doctors

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• We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.

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  Dad, Land, Long

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• 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.

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  Kids, Iphone, Order

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• 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.

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  Achievement, Joy, Survivor

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• Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.

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  Father, Book, Reality

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• 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.

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  Home, Giving, Dollars

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• When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.

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  Life Lesson, Ideas, Soul

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• When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.

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  Libro, Escritura, Necesidades

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• The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.

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  Dad, Gold, Watches

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• When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.

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  Cancer, Time Zones, Want

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

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  Writing, Want, Follow Your Passion

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.45, Hachette UK

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