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.
BARBARA JOHNSONTrue love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.
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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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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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The most important things in your home are people.
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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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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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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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Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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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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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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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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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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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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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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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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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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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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