Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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
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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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Change is a process not an event.
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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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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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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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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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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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