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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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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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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If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that’s kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it’s Loving Kindness.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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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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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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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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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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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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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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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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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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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 spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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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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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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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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