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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

Smile…it kills time between disasters.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Disaster Smile Time
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Easy Labor Motherhood
Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
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Inspirational Laughter Positive
Change is a process not an event.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Change Events Process
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
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Grudge Hands Wise
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Answers Causes Encouragement
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hate Principles Tickets
We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Glimpse Joy People
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
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!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Day Looks Missing One
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
Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Apology February Violet
My karma just ran over my dogma.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dogma Karma Ran
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
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Reading Reality Teaching

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