Your sorrow will become smaller, like a star in the daylight that you can't even see. It's there, shining, but there is also a vast expanse of blue sky.
Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.
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Margaret Atwood
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie ten Boom
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Corrie Ten Boom
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, just empties today of its strength.
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Ziad K. Abdelnour
Past tears are present strength.
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George MacDonald
That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.
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Stephanie Kuehn
More Quotes By Alice Hoffman
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.
