20 Quotes by Ann H. Gabhart

Forgiveness requires a sacrifice of pride. A humbling of the spirit. An increase of selfless love. A time when you allow others’ feelings to be more important than your own.

Love is a strange animal. You can’t always tame it and make it behave the way you want it to. For years, I thought I could. I thought I could use love the way I used lipstick and perfume. Just to get what I wanted. But real love isn’t that way. Real love bangs you around and makes you do things you never thought you would do.

You are beautiful inside and outside, through and through, and I love you completely. Desperately. With every inch of my heart and soul, and I always will to my dying day.

Love doesn’t always come barreling down on you like a train engine. Sometimes it sneaks up on you like spring overtaking winter. The chill winds begin to warm and suddenly the trees have leaves and the flowers are blooming.

Ma says that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder,′ Jeralene said. ‘But that the Lord has put something pretty in everybody.

Her father told her she was pretty, but all fathers said that. Grandma Howard told her pretty on the outside didn’t particularly matter. Pretty on the inside is what mattered to the good Lord.

Even a beige kind of girl could wear red sometimes.

I learnt a long time back to accept whatever comes my way. Best savor the good and bear up under the bad. There ain’t no changin’ none of it.

There are times for growing stronger and times for comforting, and sometimes both times see a few tears.