Johanna Spyri Quotes

The poor child felt like a little bird that is placed in a glittering cage.

Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.

Sometimes I felt as if I could not bear it any longer to be away from you!

No, but I feel as if a big stone is pressing me here.

But then all at once he wanted to have his own goods and money and to be his own master, and so he asked his father to give him his portion, and he left his home and went and wasted all his substance.

The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times; the heart is comforted with the assurance that some day everything that we have loved will be given back to us. —

You mustn't hurt him. Let him go

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

"The grandfather explained to her that it was the sun that did it. "When he says good-night to the mountains he throws his most beautiful colors over them, so that they may not forget him before he comes again the next day.

Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.

I want to go about like the light-footed goats.

The fire in the evening was the best of all. Peter said is wasn't fie, but he couldn't tell me what it really was. You can thought, Grandfather, can't you?'
'It's the sun's way of saying goodnight to the mountains' he explained. 'He spreads that beautiful light over them so that they won't forget him till he comes back in the morning.

But she had to go to bed first, and all night she slept soundly on her bed of hay, dreaming of nothing but of shining mountains with red roses all over them, among which happy little Snowflake went leaping in and out.

No one knows what it is to lie here alone day after day, in silence and darkness, without hearing a voice or seeing a ray of light. Sad thoughts come over me, and I do not feel sometimes as if I could bear it any longer or as if it could ever be light again.

"God is good to all of us. He knows what we need better than we do. And just because he thinks it is better not to give you what you want right now doesn't mean he isn't answering you. You shall have what you ask for but not until the right time comes." - Grandmamma