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.
BARBARA JOHNSONLaughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
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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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We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God’s grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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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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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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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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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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Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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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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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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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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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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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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The most important things in your home are people.
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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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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
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