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.
BARBARA JOHNSONLove is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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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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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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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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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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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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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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!
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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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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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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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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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