Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
BARBARA JOHNSONWe can never untangle all the woes in other people’s lives. We can’t produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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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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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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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God’s grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.
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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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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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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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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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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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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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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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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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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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The most important things in your home are people.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. … I know what regret feels like; I’ve earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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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 attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
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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.
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