199 Quotes by Regina Brett

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.

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.

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.

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

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written.

For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I’m Irish and Slovak. It’s just so ingrained in us.

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.

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

Growing old beats the alternative – dying young.