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
BARBARA JOHNSONWorry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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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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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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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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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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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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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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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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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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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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Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
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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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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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