A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
BARBARA JOHNSONThe attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
-
-
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
BARBARA JOHNSON -
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
I don’t have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I’m committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
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 -
Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
BARBARA JOHNSON -
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
The most important things in your home are people.
BARBARA JOHNSON