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.
BARBARA JOHNSONNo one likes change… but babies in diapers.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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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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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn’t know were there.
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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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We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need — the umbrella of God’s love.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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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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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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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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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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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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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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As you’re rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people’s eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!
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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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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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