Barbara Johnson Quotes - Page 3

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!

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.

The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed

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.

Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, "Son, it looks like you don't have a home anymore." The little boy promptly answered, "Oh, yes, we have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in."

No one likes change... but babies in diapers.

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?

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

My karma just ran over my dogma.

Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you.

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

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

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.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

Violets are God's apology for February.

Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.