I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
BARBARA JOHNSONHow will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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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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The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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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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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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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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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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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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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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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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