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. Betty Smith More Quotes by Betty Smith More Quotes From Betty Smith 'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.' Betty Smith brooklyn dear-god beautiful 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. Betty Smith pieces dream sleep Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time. Betty Smith perspective looks firsts Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two who loved each other so well. Betty Smith dreamer differences two They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted. Betty Smith anguish compassion suffering All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live. Betty Smith live-life kind life Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing. Betty Smith forgiveness cost inspirational And always, there was the magic of learning things. Betty Smith magic But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked. Betty Smith smell hard-work book It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. Betty Smith heartache lasts children It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first. Betty Smith writing long firsts It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day. Betty Smith light rivers grieving Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world. Betty Smith heart war children But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it. Betty Smith tree trying men Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn." "But you're still a Brooklynite." "I wouldn't want that to get around, Annie." "You don't mean that, Carl." "Ah, we might as well call them beanies, Annie." "Why?" "When in Rome do as the Romans do." "Do they call them beanies in Rome?" she asked artlessly. "This is the silliest conversation. Betty Smith rome want mean You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life. Betty Smith rotten born dies Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man. Betty Smith wells littles men Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living. Betty Smith pain fighting thinking The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. Betty Smith important cities children As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone. Betty Smith suffering gone long
