Smile…it kills time between disasters.
BARBARA JOHNSONYou 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn’t anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things!
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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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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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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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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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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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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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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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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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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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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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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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