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Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

Barbara Johnson

Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Chance Choices Destiny
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
Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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Christian Opportunity Worry
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Hurt Looks Sides
Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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Better Days Next Remember
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Children Joy Mother
Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Forgotten Naked Way
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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Dream Life Littles
When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we’re going to make it through and be a part of God’s marvelous plan for His child.
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Children Hope Out Work
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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Glimpse Joy People
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
No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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Baby Diapers Likes
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
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Arrangement Dies Humor
Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Apology February Violet
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
Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
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Dream Faith Prayer
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn’t know were there.
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Joy Light Looks
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life 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
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
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Kids Necks Pain
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Grudge Hands Wise
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

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

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