The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Love is the light that you see by.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Things last so much longer than people.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
...Laura knew the price of motherhood to be pain and responsibility; the reward, love and pride. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
I ... you mean me?""Quite naturally, when I said, 'What about you, yourself,' I meant
you. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
Not all clever words are true ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal ... — Bess Streeter Aldrich
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. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said ... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret? — Willa Cather
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out — Bess Streeter Aldrich
You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad. — Brian Kilmeade
Thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves? — Mahatma Gandhi
...For can you think how it would be, to never, never hear a meadow lark sing again...? — Bess Streeter Aldrich
The wheels where enormous wooden affairs, the back ones rounding up over the windows of the coach. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell. — Walter Alexander Raleigh
Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages... — Bess Streeter Aldrich
