Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
BARBARA JOHNSONTeaching 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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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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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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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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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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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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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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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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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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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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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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