Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
BARBARA JOHNSONI think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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The most important things in your home are people.
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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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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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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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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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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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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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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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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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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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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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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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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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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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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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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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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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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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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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