The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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
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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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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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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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The most important things in your home are people.
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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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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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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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Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
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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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