Barbara Johnson
Barbara Johnson
Barbara Johnsonwas an American literary critic and translator, born in Boston. She was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. Her scholarship incorporated a variety of structuralist and poststructuralist perspectives—including deconstruction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and feminist theory—into a critical, interdisciplinary study of literature. As a scholar, teacher, and translator, Johnson helped make the theories of French philosopher Jacques Derrida accessible to English-speaking audiences in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth4 October 1947
CountryUnited States of America
The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.
Change is a process not an event.
True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
Smile...it kills time between disasters.
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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!
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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.
The most important things in your home are people.