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Violets are God’s apology for February.

Barbara Johnson

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dream Life Littles
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
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 God Love
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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Age Businessman Businesswoman Hundred Live Thinking
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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Growing Inspirational Jobs
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!
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Eye People Rushing
Change is a process not an event.
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Change Events Process
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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Attitude Kindness Sneakers
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
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Circumstances Love Safety
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
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Chance Choices Destiny
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Arrangement Dies Humor
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Hurt Looks Sides
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
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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Day Looks Missing One
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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Behind Heaven Live Touch
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Faith Prayer Rain
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Answers Causes Encouragement
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Easter Friday People
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Encouragement Eye Heart
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Bored Dull Life Too Short
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Lasts Speed Today
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Dessert First Food Loss Weight
Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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Christian Opportunity Worry
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Kneeling Prayer Standing

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