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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!

Barbara Johnson

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Faith Prayer Rain
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Growing Inspirational Jobs
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 JOHNSON

Reading Reality Teaching
The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Attitude Kindness Sneakers
Violets are God’s apology for February.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Apology February Violet
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hate Past Regret
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Gears Optimism Patience
Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Laughter Pain Stress
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Boxing Heaven Want
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Change God Love
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hurt Looks Sides
As you’re rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people’s eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Eye People Rushing
Change is a process not an event.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Change Events Process
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Bored Dull Life Too Short
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hate Principles Tickets

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