Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
BARBARA JOHNSONGrowing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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 joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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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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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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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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Change is a process not an event.
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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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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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You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn’t know were there.
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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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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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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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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All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we’re going to make it through and be a part of God’s marvelous plan for His child.
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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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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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