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.
BARBARA JOHNSONTeaching 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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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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How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!
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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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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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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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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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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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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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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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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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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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