Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
BARBARA JOHNSONGrudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. … I know what regret feels like; I’ve earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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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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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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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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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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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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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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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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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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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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God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
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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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We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
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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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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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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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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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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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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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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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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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