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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

Barbara Johnson

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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Age Businessman Businesswoman Hundred Live Thinking
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Dogma Karma Ran
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Faith Prayer Rain
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God’s grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.
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Disappointment Flower Loneliness
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Answers Causes Encouragement
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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Reading Reality Teaching
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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Anniversary Love Valentine's Day
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
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Hurt Looks Sides
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Kids Necks Pain
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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Dream Life Littles
True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
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Go Goodbye Letting True Love
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love

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