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.
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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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of 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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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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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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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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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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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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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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