Barbara Johnson Quotes

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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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  Love, Change, God

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.123, Zondervan

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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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  Attitude, Keys, Play

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.79, Zondervan

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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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  Believe, Joy, Forgiving

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.215, Zondervan

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• Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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  Baby, Laughter, Thinking

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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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  Inspirational, Positive, Laughter

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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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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  Regret, Flower, Adversity

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• 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.

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  Lonely, Laughter, Heart

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.115, Zondervan

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• 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.

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  Sleep, Home, Giving

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

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  Encouragement, Heart, Eye

  Barbara Johnson (1996). “The Joy Journal”, Thomas Nelson

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• True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

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  True Love, Letting Go, Goodbye

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• 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.

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  Loss, Blessing, Thinking

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.54, Zondervan

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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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  Motherhood, Easy, Labor

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.175, Zondervan

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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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  Heaven, Behinds

  Barbara Johnson (2002). “Barbara Johnson”, Thomas Nelson

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• Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation.

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  Attitude, Color, Mind

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.290, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God never gives up on us no matter how hard we try to get ourselves loose. God does not let go. That doesn't mean he controls everything we do. It doesn't mean he puts a bridle on us and leads us by the nose. He gives each one of us free will and common sense and a spirit that can communicate with his. When we go through afflictions, he allows us to choose our response. But no matter what our response may be, he sticks around to the bitter end.

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  God, Letting Go, Giving Up

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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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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  Light, Joy, Looks

  Barbara Johnson (2004). “Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy”, p.78, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.

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  Blessing, Secret, Growing

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.73, Zondervan

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• 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!

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  Missing, One Day, Looks

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.219, Zondervan

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• I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.

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  Encouragement, Answers, Causes

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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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  Attitude, Eye, Expression

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• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

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  Patience, Optimism, Gears

  Barbara Johnson (2008). “When Your Child Breaks Your Heart: Help for Hurting Moms”, p.134, Revell

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• Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!

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  Inspirational, Winning, Answers

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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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  Song, Sunset, Caring

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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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  Anniversary, Happy Valentines Day, Love Is

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