Bette Lee Crosby Quotes & Sayings

It's a complex thing to let your thoughts fly free when your body is tied to the labors of life. — Bette Lee Crosby

As I grow ever closer to the end of my time, I look back at this life and tell you that the only thing I would wish to give up is the regret I've carried in my heart for all these years. At long last I have come to realize the things I once counted as regrets were indeed blessings that I was too blind to see. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

The heart can't learn to heal until it knows it's been broken. — Bette Lee Crosby

She looked down at the boy and knew her ability to love was not dead. It simply needed a reason to live. — Bette Lee Crosby

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

Lani Deauville — Bette Lee Crosby

What the heart remembers isn't always a true picture of what was, — Bette Lee Crosby

Before you find the magic of life you have to open yourself up to the possibility of it being there. — Bette Lee Crosby

It ain't the preaching what makes a man godly, it's the doing. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

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! — Bette Lee Crosby

sugar, if you ain't on speaking terms with The Lord, what right you got to ask Him to help you out? — Bette Lee Crosby

No matter how old a person gets, they can still dream. They can still believe in miracles. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

The Lord listens in all those places. They're just different slices of the same pie. — Bette Lee Crosby

I remind myself that loving my sister means I have to step back and give her the dignity of independence. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

She'd bottled herself up like a person already cremated. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

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? — Bette Lee Crosby

Church words are easy to say, but they're not so easy to live by. — Bette Lee Crosby

Do you think there's ever any joy for people who carve their happiness out of someone else's hurt? — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

As sorry as I feel for myself, I feel even sorrier for her. I know she's afraid of staying and equally as frightened of going. Just as this land is a part of me, this house is a part of her. Selling off these things piece by piece is like cutting away chunks of her heart. I promised to make it better, but only God knows whether or not that's a promise I'll be able to keep. — Bette Lee Crosby

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

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. — Bette Lee Crosby

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. — Bette Lee Crosby