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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!

Barbara Johnson

Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Forgotten Naked Way
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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Eye People Rushing
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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Laughter Pain Stress
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Attitude Color Mind
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
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
Change is a process not an event.
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Change Events Process
No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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Baby Diapers Likes
If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that’s kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it’s Loving Kindness.
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Giving Kindness Peanut Butter
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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Joy Light Looks
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Grudge Hands Wise
I don’t have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I’m committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.
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Commitment Details Worry
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we’re going to make it through and be a part of God’s marvelous plan for His child.
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Children Hope Out Work
The most important things in your home are people.
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Home Important People
Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Lasts Speed Today
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
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Hurt Looks Sides
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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Age Businessman Businesswoman Hundred Live Thinking
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Children Joy Mother
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Easter Friday People
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Answers Causes Encouragement
We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need — the umbrella of God’s love.
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Needs Puddles Rainbow
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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Believe Forgiving Joy
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Answers Inspirational Winning
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Inevitable Misery Pain

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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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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