Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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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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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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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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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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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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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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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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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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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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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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