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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

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

Anniversary Love Valentine's Day
The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Attitude Kindness Sneakers
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience
Violets are God’s apology for February.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Apology February Violet
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
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Encouragement Eye Heart
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Kids Necks Pain
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Inevitable Misery Pain
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
BARBARA JOHNSON

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

Dream Life Littles
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Bored Dull Life Too Short
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Reading Reality Teaching
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Commitment Details Worry
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Change God Love
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Attitude Color Mind

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