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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
Barbara Johnson
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Barbara Johnson
Age: 61 †
Born: 1947
Born: October 4
Died: 2009
Died: August 27
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University Teacher
Boston
Massachusetts
Barbara Ellen Johnson
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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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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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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.
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Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
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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.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.
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Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
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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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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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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We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love.
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How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!
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