Betty Smith

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

#wonder #time

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much. ↗

— Betty Smith

#girls #inspirational #loneliness #suffering #inspirational

look at everything as though you are seeing it either for the first or last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory ↗

— Betty Smith

#perception

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life adn there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion. ↗

— Betty Smith

#life #religion #death

A free country? they asked. You should live so long. What's free about it, they reasoned, when the law forces you to educate your children and then endangers their lives to get them into school? ↗

— Betty Smith

#education

She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life. ↗

— Betty Smith

#motherhood #pregnancy #life

... Now my wandering days are over. It will be bliss to settle down. Bliss. There's a word, now. Bliss to love and to be loved. ↗

— Betty Smith

#love

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. ↗

— Betty Smith

#everything #filled #first #first time #glory

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. ↗

— Betty Smith

#brass #clock #embedded #fake #flank