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

Barbara Johnson

The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Blessing Growing Secret
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
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. … 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
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Easy Labor Motherhood
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
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Age Businessman Businesswoman Hundred Live Thinking
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
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Arrangement Dies Humor
Violets are God’s apology for February.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Apology February Violet
Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
BARBARA JOHNSON

Christian Opportunity Worry
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
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
BARBARA JOHNSON

Inevitable Misery Pain
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Answers Inspirational Winning
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

Caring Song Sunset
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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