Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.
BARBARA JOHNSONBeing codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
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Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
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Change is a process not an event.
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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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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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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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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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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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The most important things in your home are people.
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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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When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we’re going to make it through and be a part of God’s marvelous plan for His child.
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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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