It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYThank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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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.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
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