Regina Brett Quotes

Someone once told me the difference between a rut and a grave is this: a rut has a little more room to move around. When I find myself in a rut, I know I better get out fast before it becomes a grave.

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.

"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.

All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

Rewiring your thoughts won't get rid of the holes in your life, but it can prevent you from falling in them.

It's up to us to call forth our greatest light and love and be the miracle, right here, right now.

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

We need to stop hiding our tears and actually share them. It takes a strong person to cry. It takes a stronger person to let others see those tears. We need to be tough enough to be tender, no matter who is watching.

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

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.

Humility is perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised, it is to have a blessed home in myself where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret and be at peace, as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and about is seeming trouble.

Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full hear. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

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.

Think fear, you attract anxiety. Think abundance, you attract wealth. Think love, you attract compassion.

What would I do with my life? The future overwhelmed me. Then one day a friend in recovery suggested this: just do the next right thing.