Violets are God’s apology for February.
BARBARA JOHNSONLaughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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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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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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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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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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The most important things in your home are people.
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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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I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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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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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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