Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
BARBARA JOHNSONIt never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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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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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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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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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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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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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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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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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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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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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
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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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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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