Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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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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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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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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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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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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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When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we’re going to make it through and be a part of God’s marvelous plan for His child.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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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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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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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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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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