Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.
True friends are always together in spirit.
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
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