It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYOne can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Anne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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