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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

Barbara Johnson

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!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Attitude Expression Eye
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
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Kids Necks Pain
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Easter Friday People
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
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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Heart Laughter Lonely
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Bored Dull Life Too Short
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

Change God Love
I don’t have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I’m committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.
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Commitment Details Worry
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Children Joy Mother
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

Reading Reality Teaching
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!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Day Looks Missing One
Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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Christian Opportunity Worry
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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Laughter Pain Stress
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Inevitable Misery Pain
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Grudge Hands Wise

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

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