Barbara Johnson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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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“Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?”
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“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”
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“Whatever it is probably won't go away, so we might as well live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing, we're bending so we won't break. If you think your particular troubles are too heavy and too traumatic to laugh about, remember that laughing is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for awhile.”
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“Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!”
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“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.”
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“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.”
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“Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.”
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“If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.”
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“Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down and plays sonatas, while another merely bangs away at "Chopsticks." The piano is not responsible. It's how you touch the keys that makes the difference. It's how you play what life gives you that determines your joy and shine.”
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“The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed”
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“It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.”
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“The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.”
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“Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.”
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“We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.”
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“If things are tough, remember that every flower had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. So do not grieve about a bitter experience. The present is slipping by while you are regretting the past and worrying about the future. Regret will not prevent tomorrow's sorrows; it will only rob today of its strength.”
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“Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.”
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“No one likes change... but babies in diapers.”
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“Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.”
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“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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“Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.”
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“The most important things in your home are people.”
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“I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.”
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“Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.”
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“Forgiveness is a stunning principal, 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. Forgiveness frees you of the past so you can make good choices today.”
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“We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.”
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“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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“A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip off on one side or the other, we're taken by surprise. But who said there wouldn't be surprises? Knowing God just means that all the rules will be fair; at the end of our life drama, we'll see that. We never know how things will turn out, but if we know with certainty they will make sense regardless of how they turn out, we're on to something.”
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“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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