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.
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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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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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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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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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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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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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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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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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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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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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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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All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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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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