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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

Barbara Johnson

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
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Children Joy Mother
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Attitude Color Mind
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
As you’re rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people’s eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!
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Eye People Rushing
Change is a process not an event.
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Change Events Process
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Boxing Heaven Want
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Easter Friday People
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. … I know what regret feels like; I’ve earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.
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Hate Past Regret
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Grudge Hands Wise
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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Attitude Expression Eye
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
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
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

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