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.
BARBARA JOHNSONIt never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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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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Change is a process not an event.
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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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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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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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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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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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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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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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