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 For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road. Lucy Maud Montgomery childhood magic lying I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it. Lucy Maud Montgomery opposites beautiful giving A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful. Lucy Maud Montgomery deceitful anger children Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below. Lucy Maud Montgomery shame names book 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. Lucy Maud Montgomery flower summer thinking I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers…and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea…and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn. Lucy Maud Montgomery light sea thinking I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time. Lucy Maud Montgomery things-in-life clouds depression Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain. Lucy Maud Montgomery pain broken heart There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible. Lucy Maud Montgomery book-of-revelation revelations book It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods. Lucy Maud Montgomery summer wind night 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? Lucy Maud Montgomery serious-things growing-up thinking To dispair is to turn your back on God. Lucy Maud Montgomery turns I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU! Lucy Maud Montgomery dog dream home She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare. Lucy Maud Montgomery plates nightmare fashion I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla? Lucy Maud Montgomery body spirit said Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery degrees romance girl Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband. Lucy Maud Montgomery risk husband done Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love. Lucy Maud Montgomery one-you-love house people Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? Lucy Maud Montgomery scent sunset people brains last, beauty doesn't. Lucy Maud Montgomery intelligence lasts brain
