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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.

Barbara Johnson

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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Giving Kindness Peanut Butter
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Inevitable Misery Pain
No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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Baby Diapers Likes
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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Believe Forgiving Joy
The most important things in your home are people.
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Home Important People
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.
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Reading Reality Teaching
Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Forgotten Naked Way
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Apology February Violet
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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Attitude Expression Eye
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Dessert First Food Loss Weight
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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Disappointment Flower Loneliness
True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
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Go Goodbye Letting True Love
We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need — the umbrella of God’s love.
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Needs Puddles Rainbow
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Bored Dull Life Too Short
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Boxing Heaven Want

A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.

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