Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
BARBARA JOHNSONNever let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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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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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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The most important things in your home are people.
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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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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 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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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Change is a process not an event.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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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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