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. Barbara Johnson More Quotes by Barbara Johnson More Quotes From Barbara Johnson Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull. Barbara Johnson life-is-too-short bored dull Choices not chance determine your destiny. Barbara Johnson destiny chance choices 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! Barbara Johnson rushing eye people Smile...it kills time between disasters. Barbara Johnson disaster Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next. Barbara Johnson better-days next remember We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day. Barbara Johnson dream littles life Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements. Barbara Johnson arrangements dies humor Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away. Barbara Johnson boxing want heaven Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life! Barbara Johnson advertising faces philosophy Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse! Barbara Johnson naked forgotten way 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. Barbara Johnson reading teaching reality