We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
BARBARA JOHNSONLive for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God’s love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God’s love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God’s grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.
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The most important things in your home are people.
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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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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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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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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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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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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I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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