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.
BARBARA JOHNSONAll we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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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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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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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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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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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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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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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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Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that’s kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it’s Loving Kindness.
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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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