199 Quotes by Regina Brett

Life is not about how you survive the storm, but how you dance in the rain!

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

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

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.

He’d be the first to say God never gives us more than we were designed to carry. Some of us were designed for more, some for less. No matter what, even if we are asked to carry a portion of sky, it is beyond bearable. It is a gift.

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.

If you want to accomplish the impossible, get busy on the possible.

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

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.