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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

Barbara Johnson

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dream Life Littles
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Caring Song Sunset
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
Violets are God’s apology for February.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Apology February Violet
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Easy Labor Motherhood
My karma just ran over my dogma.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dogma Karma Ran
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
BARBARA JOHNSON

Inevitable Misery Pain
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Boxing Heaven Want
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Blessing Growing Secret
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Disappointment Flower Loneliness
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Joy Light Looks
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Age Businessman Businesswoman Hundred Live Thinking
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
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Faith Prayer Rain
The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Attitude Kindness Sneakers
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Answers Inspirational Winning

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