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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More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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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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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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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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I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need — the umbrella of God’s love.
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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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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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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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The most important things in your home are people.
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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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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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Change is a process not an event.
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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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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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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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Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
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