Lucy Maud Montgomery
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.Collection: Hope
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.Collection: Future
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.Collection: Business
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.Collection: Nature
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
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.
It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.Collection: Graduation
You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight when the dew is falling and the old stars are peeping out and the sea keeps its mighty tryst with the little land it loves. You find your soul then. You realize that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.Collection: Summer
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.Collection: Life
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.Collection: Art
The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.Collection: Spring
Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.Collection: Dream
Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.Collection: Lying
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.Collection: Believe
There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.Collection: Thinking
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.Collection: Memories
We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?Collection: Fun
How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.Collection: Views
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.Collection: Mistake
There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they forget the way. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again...The world calls them singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.Collection: Children
There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.Collection: People
Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.Collection: Spring
The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.Collection: Sweet
All things great are wound up with all things little.Collection: Littles
I am simply a book drunkard.Collection: Book
If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. MontgomeryCollection: Sometimes
Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each one out from its fellows.Collection: Curves
Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.Collection: Tree
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.Collection: Inspirational
Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.Collection: Summer
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worthCollection: Writing
I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.Collection: Love
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.Collection: Broken Heart
They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?Collection: Growing Up
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.Collection: Artist
I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.Collection: Memories
Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!Collection: Morning
Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.Collection: Nice
[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.Collection: Dream
She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.Collection: Fashion
Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.Collection: Children
I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.Collection: Children
There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.Collection: Thinking
Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.Collection: Suffering