The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
BARBARA JOHNSONMotherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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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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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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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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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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Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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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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God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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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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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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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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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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We 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.
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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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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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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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