Bette Lee Crosby Quotes

#1. It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!

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#2. When the preacher says it's for better or worse, you're so blinded by the possibility of better you fail to see the reality of worse.

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#3. Each day is a gift. Treasure it and remember it for what it is. There may come a time when that memory is all you have.

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#4. A man's pride will cause him to do things you never dreamed possible. He got fired up about being right and blocked out everything else.

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#5. The worst handicap you can have is a lack of belief in yourself!

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#6. Cyrus is the meat and potatoes of my life, but Prudence was a cupcake I could enjoy just for the sheer sweetness of being with her.

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#7. The Lord listens in all those places. They're just different slices of the same pie.

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#8. The heart can't learn to heal until it knows it's been broken.

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#9. What the heart remembers isn't always a true picture of what was,

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#10. A man cannot change who he is. He can only hope that with age comes the wisdom to see his folly. I would like to believe I have achieved that.

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#11. She looked down at the boy and knew her ability to love was not dead. It simply needed a reason to live.

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#12. Being sick robs a person of their health and being poor robs them of life's luxuries, but being pitied robs them of their will to live.

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#13. She'd bottled herself up like a person already cremated.

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#14. No matter how old a person gets, they can still dream. They can still believe in miracles.

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#15. All those children I thought were just passing through have taken up residence in my heart. I can close my eyes and picture their faces, which is enough to make me feel warm all over.

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#16. I remind myself that loving my sister means I have to step back and give her the dignity of independence.

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#17. He searched his mind for something more to say, something to take away her pain, but he could find nothing. There were no words to ease such a pain. He knew because the ache in his heart was as great as hers.

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#18. We were just two people headed in the same direction, and walking together was better than walking alone. Love should be more than that.

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#19. Nothing in this life is guaranteed. Nothing. The things you love are like the puffs of a dandelion weed; they grow wild and happen as they will.

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#20. Here's to the future, he said and lifted the glass to his mouth. There was a lump of regret stuck in his throat as he spoke the words, but he washed it down with the whiskey.

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#21. Having a sister is like having a thumb; you simply believe it will always be there, because how could you possibly get along without it?

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#22. Do you think there's ever any joy for people who carve their happiness out of someone else's hurt?

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#23. love isn't the flourishes and fancy ironwork that decorate a facade, it's the foundation of a building. It's what forever is built on.

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#24. sugar, if you ain't on speaking terms with The Lord, what right you got to ask Him to help you out?

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#25. It's a complex thing to let your thoughts fly free when your body is tied to the labors of life.

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#26. It's said that only gypsies have the true gift of looking at a person and seeing their future, so I was happy as a red hen when she said a man named Doyle would be loving me for the whole of my life and then some.

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#27. Before you find the magic of life you have to open yourself up to the possibility of it being there.

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#28. To give a lot when you have a lot is easy; but to give a lot when you have so little is indeed a gift of love.

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#29. Church words are easy to say, but they're not so easy to live by.

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#30. I say "I'm fine," because that's what you do. When someone asks how you are, you say fine, regardless of whether it's true.

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#31. It ain't the preaching what makes a man godly, it's the doing.

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#32. Unfortunately time is the master of us all; it takes what it will, and often there are no words to ease the emptiness of what is gone.

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