Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
BARBARA JOHNSONThe most important things in your home are people.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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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 secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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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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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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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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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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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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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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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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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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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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