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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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.

Barbara Johnson

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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

BARBARA JOHNSON

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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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. … I know what regret feels like; I’ve earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.

BARBARA JOHNSON

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. … I know what regret feels like; I’ve earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.
BARBARA JOHNSON
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

BARBARA JOHNSON

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Principles Tickets
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.

BARBARA JOHNSON

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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Glimpse
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.

BARBARA JOHNSON

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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Change is a process not an event.
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Events
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.

BARBARA JOHNSON

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.
BARBARA JOHNSON
Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
BARBARA JOHNSON
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.

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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Boxing
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!

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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Answers Winning
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

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Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
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Valentine's Day
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.

BARBARA JOHNSON

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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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.

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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Kneeling Standing
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Dessert First
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

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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!

BARBARA JOHNSON

Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Forgotten Way

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