Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
BARBARA JOHNSONWe 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Laughter 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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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.
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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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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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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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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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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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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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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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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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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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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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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God’s love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.
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