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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!

Barbara Johnson

Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Grudge Hands Wise
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
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Inevitable Misery Pain
Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Apology February Violet
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hate Past Regret
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Dessert First Food Loss Weight
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Answers Causes Encouragement
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Faith Prayer Rain
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Children Joy Mother
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
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
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Hurt Looks Sides
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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Believe Forgiving Joy
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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Growing Inspirational Jobs
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Kids Necks Pain
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Boxing Heaven Want
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Chance Choices Destiny
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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Day Looks Missing One
Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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Christian Opportunity Worry
You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn’t know were there.
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Joy Light Looks
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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Needs Puddles Rainbow
My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Dogma Karma Ran
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
Change is a process not an event.
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Change Events Process
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 JOHNSON

Heart Laughter Lonely

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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