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Choices not chance determine your destiny.

Barbara Johnson

Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Lasts Speed Today
My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Dogma Karma Ran
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Children Joy Mother
True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
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Go Goodbye Letting True Love
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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Age Businessman Businesswoman Hundred Live Thinking
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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Children Hope Out Work
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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Caring Song Sunset
Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
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Inspirational Laughter Positive
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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Needs Puddles Rainbow
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Bored Dull Life Too Short
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
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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Giving Kindness Peanut Butter
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love
I don’t have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I’m committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.
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Commitment Details Worry
Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Forgotten Naked Way
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Blessing Growing Secret
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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Dream Life Littles
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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Growing Inspirational Jobs
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Boxing Heaven Want
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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Reading Reality Teaching
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Grudge Hands Wise
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Attitude Color Mind
Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
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Dream Faith Prayer
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Dessert First Food Loss Weight
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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Hate Past Regret
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
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Circumstances Love Safety

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