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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.

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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Reading Reality Teaching
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Encouragement Eye Heart
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Easy Labor Motherhood
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
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
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
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Chance Choices Destiny
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience
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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Inspirational Laughter Positive
Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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Better Days Next Remember
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Grudge Hands Wise
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Answers Inspirational Winning
Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.
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Caring Song Sunset
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

Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.

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