199 Quotes by Regina Brett

Like every wounded woman, I wanted someone who would never hurt me, never let me down, never reject or abandon me. It was an impossible order.

It’s easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

When you finally let go of the person you used to be, you get to discover the person you are now and the person you want to become.

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.

But miracles aren’t what other people do. They’re what each of us does. They’re what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action.

It’s OK to let your children see you cry.

Get busy living the life of your dreams instead of looking for the man or woman of your dreams.

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.

I don’t always understand how God works, but I still pray. It’s like that old saying, I don’t understand how electricity works, either, but I don’t let that keep me in the dark. I don’t have to understand God to believe in God. What gives me hope are those words some anonymous soul wrote: “I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining. I believe in love, even when I feel it not. I believe in God even when He is silent.