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.
BARBARA JOHNSONWe are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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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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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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We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
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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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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
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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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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!
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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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