The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
BARBARA JOHNSONEverybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
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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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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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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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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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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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