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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

Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Laughter Pain Stress
Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Forgotten Naked Way
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Chance Choices Destiny
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
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Codependent Eye Mean
My karma just ran over my dogma.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dogma Karma Ran
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Easy Labor Motherhood
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dessert First Food Loss Weight
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
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Growing Inspirational Jobs
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
BARBARA JOHNSON

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

Lasts Speed Today
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Behind Heaven Live Touch
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
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Answers Inspirational Winning

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