I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
BARBARA JOHNSONLife 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!
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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The most important things in your home are people.
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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.
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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.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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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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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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You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn’t know were there.
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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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