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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.

Barbara Johnson

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Children Joy Mother
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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Giving Kindness Peanut Butter
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
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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Change God Love
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
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Easy Labor Motherhood
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love
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

Eye People Rushing
Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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Better Days Next Remember
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Attitude Color Mind
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.
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Commitment Details Worry
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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Caring Song Sunset
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Kids Necks Pain
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.
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Heart Laughter Lonely

Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.

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