black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.

Barbara Johnson

Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
BARBARA JOHNSON

Christian Opportunity Worry
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dream Life Littles
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Gears Optimism Patience
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
BARBARA JOHNSON

Inevitable Misery Pain
How 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!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Attitude Expression Eye
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Behind Heaven Live Touch
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Answers Causes Encouragement
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Arrangement Dies Humor
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Bored Dull Life Too Short
The most important things in your home are people.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Home Important People
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Reading Reality Teaching
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Disappointment Flower Loneliness
No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Baby Diapers Likes
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Kneeling Prayer Standing
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
BARBARA JOHNSON

Children Joy Mother

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Barbara Johnson Quotes