Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
BARBARA JOHNSONAlways remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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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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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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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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Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
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Change is a process not an event.
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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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When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we’re going to make it through and be a part of God’s marvelous plan for His child.
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
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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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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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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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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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