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Barbara Johnson

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

Hurt Looks Sides
If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
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Believe Forgiving Joy
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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Behind Heaven Live Touch
We 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.
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Heart Laughter Lonely
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
You 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.
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Joy Light Looks
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love
Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Apology February Violet
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Easter Friday People
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Blessing Growing Secret
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Kids Necks Pain
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
The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
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Attitude Kindness Sneakers
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
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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Disappointment Flower Loneliness
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
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
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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Change God Love
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
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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Glimpse Joy People
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
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Faith Prayer Rain
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
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
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
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
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Easy Labor Motherhood

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