there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own. Lucy Maud Montgomery More Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery More Quotes From Lucy Maud Montgomery That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs. Lucy Maud Montgomery nature spring animal Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath. Lucy Maud Montgomery perhaps-love rose beautiful Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy. Lucy Maud Montgomery happy happiness inspirational How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view. Lucy Maud Montgomery realms imagination views 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. Lucy Maud Montgomery asks knows love One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window. She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom. Lucy Maud Montgomery queens sweet book That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about. Lucy Maud Montgomery poverty imagine poor All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved. Lucy Maud Montgomery twilight dwelling two If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery montgomery following sometimes God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly. Lucy Maud Montgomery green-gables heaven world I've come home in love with loneliness Lucy Maud Montgomery coming-home loneliness home Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways. Lucy Maud Montgomery perhaps-love romance old-friends A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing. Lucy Maud Montgomery immoral cold june Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam. Lucy Maud Montgomery sunday make-you-think thinking The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them. Lucy Maud Montgomery stars dark night After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt? Lucy Maud Montgomery grunt pigs Why, I've never even had a quarrel with any one. I haven't an enemy. What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy! Lucy Maud Montgomery spineless enemy Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert) Lucy Maud Montgomery slavery twins trouble When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie Lucy Maud Montgomery aunt understanding laughing We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life. Lucy Maud Montgomery saving running comforting
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