Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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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Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn’t anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things!
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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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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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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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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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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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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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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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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Change is a process not an event.
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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