Top 100 Regina Brett Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.”

— Regina Brett

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2. “Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.”

— Regina Brett

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3. “Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.”

— Regina Brett

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4. “Time heals almost everything. Give time time.”

— Regina Brett

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5. “Over prepare, then go with the flow.”

— Regina Brett

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

— Regina Brett

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

— Regina Brett

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8. “When in doubt, take the next step.”

— Regina Brett

9. “However good or bad a situation is, it will change.”

— Regina Brett

10. “No one is in charge of your happiness except you.”

— Regina Brett

11. “Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.”

— Regina Brett

12. “A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.”

— Regina Brett

13. “You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.”

— Regina Brett

14. “No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.”

— Regina Brett

15. “Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.”

— Regina Brett

16. “Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

— Regina Brett

17. “When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.”

— Regina Brett

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18. “Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.”

— Regina Brett

19. “When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.”

— Regina Brett

20. “Forgive everyone everything.”

— Regina Brett

21. “Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.”

— Regina Brett

22. “Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?”

— Regina Brett

23. “God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.”

— Regina Brett

24. “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.”

— Regina Brett

25. “Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.”

— Regina Brett

26. “Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.”

— Regina Brett

27. “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.”

— Regina Brett

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

— Regina Brett

29. “Life is not about how you survive the storm, but how you dance in the rain!”

— Regina Brett

30. “Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.”

— Regina Brett

31. “Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.”

— Regina Brett

32. “If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.”

— Regina Brett

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

— Regina Brett

34. “It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.”

— Regina Brett

35. “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.”

— Regina Brett

36. “Growing old beats the alternative – dying young.”

— Regina Brett

37. “Your children get only one childhood.”

— Regina Brett

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

— Regina Brett

39. “Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.”

— Regina Brett

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

— Regina Brett

41. “If you’re lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.”

— Regina Brett

42. “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.”

— Regina Brett

43. “God never gives us more than what we can carry.”

— Regina Brett

44. “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.”

— Regina Brett

45. “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.”

— Regina Brett

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

— Regina Brett

47. “Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.”

— Regina Brett

48. “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.”

— Regina Brett

49. “Cry alone and you’ll keep crying those same tears over and over. Cry with someone and those tears have the power to heal you once and for all.”

— Regina Brett

50. “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.”

— Regina Brett