Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
BARBARA JOHNSONIf you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Change is a process not an event.
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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.
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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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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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.
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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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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
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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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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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