Heidi Johanna Spyri Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, it will never make sense until you find the right path that makes sense to you and no one else. — Shannon L. Alder

I'll always say my prayers ... and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me. — Johanna Spyri

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts. — Parker J. Palmer

After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity. — Brandon Bays

My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work. — Christian Cooke

Closing my eyes, I find green mountains and pure water within my own heart. Silently sitting alone and drinking tea, I feel these become a part of me. — Soshitsu Sen XV

Wooster: Wait a second; this white mess jacket is brand new.
Jeeves: I assumed it had got into your wardrobe by mistake, sir, or else it had been placed there by your enemies. — P.G. Wodehouse

It was so lovely, Heidi stood with tears pouring down her cheeks, and thanked God for letting her come home to it again. She could find no words to express her feelings, but lingered until the light began to fade and then ran on. — Johanna Spyri

In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions. — Plato

Censorship became so stringent that even a scene in which a character complained too strongly about the weather could be considered "antisocial" and ordered removed. — Paul Fischer

An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath. — Aniruddha Sastikar

Some of the best memories are made in flip flops. — Kellie Elmore

My rule has been that you can always find something interesting in every woman that you wouldn't find in any other. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Heidi loudly wailed, Oh I want to go home. What the poor snowhopper will do without me? Grandmother is waiting for me everyday. Poor Thistlefinch gets blows if Peter gets no cheese, and I must see the sun again when he says good-night to the mountains. How the eagle would screech if he saw all the people here in Frankfurt. — Johanna Spyri