Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
BARBARA JOHNSONDon’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
BARBARA JOHNSONKids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
BARBARA JOHNSONAlways remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
BARBARA JOHNSONChange is a process not an event.
BARBARA JOHNSONWe are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
BARBARA JOHNSONLife 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!
BARBARA JOHNSONNo one likes change… but babies in diapers.
BARBARA JOHNSONWe can never untangle all the woes in other people’s lives. We can’t produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.
BARBARA JOHNSONLove is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
BARBARA JOHNSONLaughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
BARBARA JOHNSONGrudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
BARBARA JOHNSONYour face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
BARBARA JOHNSONWe spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
BARBARA JOHNSONPain is inevitable. Misery is optional
BARBARA JOHNSONYou 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 JOHNSONTeaching 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.
BARBARA JOHNSON