Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
BARBARA JOHNSONBeing codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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I don’t have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I’m committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.
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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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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.
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Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God’s love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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