Barbara Johnson
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.Collection: Patience
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
No one likes change but babies in diapers.
Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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 smootherCollection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Love
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.Collection: Encouragement
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Believe
Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation.Collection: Attitude
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.Collection: Attitude
If things are tough, remember that every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. The almighty Father will use life's reverses to move you forward. So do not keep grieving 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.Collection: Regret
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.Collection: Wise
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.Collection: Motherhood
If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.Collection: Kindness
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.Collection: Inspirational
Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A season of loss or blessing? A season of activity or hibernation? A season of growth or incubation? You may think you're on a detour, but God knows the best way for you to reach your destination.Collection: Loss
Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.Collection: Today
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.Collection: Lonely
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.Collection: Baby
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.Collection: Safety
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!Collection: Inspirational
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.Collection: Food
I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.Collection: Encouragement
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.Collection: Light
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.Collection: Song
When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead of you, have it! But if worries stand in your way, put them off until tomorrow. Give yourself a day off from worry. You deserve it. Some people live with a low-grade anxiety tugging at their spirit all day long. They go to sleep with it, wake up with it, carry it around at home, in town, to church, and with friends. Here's a remedy: Take the present moment and find something to laugh at. People who laugh, last.Collection: Sleep
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.Collection: Faith
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bedCollection: Mother
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.Collection: Regret
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."Collection: Home
No one likes change... but babies in diapers.Collection: Baby
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.Collection: People
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!Collection: Eye
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?Collection: Educational
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.Collection: Hate
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.Collection: Anniversary
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!Collection: Philosophy
My karma just ran over my dogma.Collection: Karma
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.Collection: Time
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.Collection: Thinking
Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!Collection: Naked
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.Collection: Pain
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Teaching
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.Collection: Mean
Smile...it kills time between disasters.Collection: Disaster
Violets are God's apology for February.Collection: Apology
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.Collection: Boxing
I don't have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I'm committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.Collection: Commitment