But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
BETTY SMITHI never listen to what people tell me and I can’t read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it’s wrong. If I feel good, it’s right.
More Betty Smith Quotes
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Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life…And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
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I’ll not punish you for having an imagination.
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It’s a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don’t want to understand it all. It’s beautiful because it’s always a mystery.
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Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
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Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere – be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar.
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Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’
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The world was hers for the reading.
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As long as one can suffer, one is living….live and suffer until life is gone.
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I want to live for something. I don’t want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.
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Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
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If you love someone, you’d rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
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Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn’t happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
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No. I don’t want to need anybody. I want someone to need me … I want someone to need me.
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Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
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We’ll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory…let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
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