Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.
Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.
Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.
When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.
You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on, -and on.