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.
BARBARA JOHNSONHave we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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We can never untangle all the woes in other people’s lives. We can’t produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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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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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Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God’s love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.
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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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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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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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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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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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