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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

Barbara Johnson

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Forgotten Naked Way
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Kneeling Prayer Standing
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Answers Inspirational Winning
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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Growing Inspirational Jobs
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Arrangement Dies Humor
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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Hate Past Regret
Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God’s love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.
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Change God Love
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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Disappointment Flower Loneliness
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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Behind Heaven Live Touch
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
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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Glimpse Joy People
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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Reading Reality Teaching
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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Commitment Details Worry
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

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