Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
BARBARA JOHNSONHow will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
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How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!
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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
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If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that’s kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it’s Loving Kindness.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. … I know what regret feels like; I’ve earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.
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I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
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The most important things in your home are people.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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