Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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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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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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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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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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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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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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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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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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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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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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