Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
BARBARA JOHNSONStop 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn’t anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things!
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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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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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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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The most important things in your home are people.
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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!
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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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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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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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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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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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