A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
BARBARA JOHNSONForgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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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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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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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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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
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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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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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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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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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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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