We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
BARBARA JOHNSONIf 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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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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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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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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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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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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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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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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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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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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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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