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 JOHNSONA balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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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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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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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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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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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Change is a process not an event.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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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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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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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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