Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
BARBARA JOHNSONGrudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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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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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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The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Change is a process not an event.
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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
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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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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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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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