As you’re rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people’s eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!
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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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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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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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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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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Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn’t anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things!
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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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