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Smile…it kills time between disasters.

Barbara Johnson

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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Reading Reality Teaching
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Bored Dull Life Too Short
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Blessing Growing Secret
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Encouragement Eye Heart
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Attitude Color Mind
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
Change is a process not an event.
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Change Events Process
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Grudge Hands Wise
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. … I know what regret feels like; I’ve earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.
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Hate Past Regret
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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Dream Life Littles
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Easy Labor Motherhood
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Boxing Heaven Want
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love

Smile…it kills time between disasters.

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