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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.

Barbara Johnson

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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Baby Diapers Likes
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Reading Reality Teaching
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hate Past Regret
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dream Faith Prayer
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Blessing Growing Secret
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Gears Optimism Patience
Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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Better Days Next Remember
True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Go Goodbye Letting True Love
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hurt Looks Sides
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Heart Laughter Lonely
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
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Circumstances Love Safety
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Chance Choices Destiny
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Answers Causes Encouragement
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

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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