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. Lucy Maud Montgomery More Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery More Quotes From Lucy Maud Montgomery I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again. Lucy Maud Montgomery my-own trouble mind A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes. Lucy Maud Montgomery prayer sometimes laughing 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. Lucy Maud Montgomery earth sweet heaven Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter. Lucy Maud Montgomery laughter goodness air I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory. Lucy Maud Montgomery victory littles looks There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk. Lucy Maud Montgomery folks silent cat It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. Lucy Maud Montgomery different stars people I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit. Lucy Maud Montgomery credit want giving it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine Lucy Maud Montgomery white sleep tree Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying. Lucy Maud Montgomery praying prayer She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity. Lucy Maud Montgomery half identity thinking We ought always to try to influence others for good. Lucy Maud Montgomery ought influence trying It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it? Lucy Maud Montgomery imagine nice sorrow If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying. Lucy Maud Montgomery silence trying needs I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born. Lucy Maud Montgomery ambition joy people Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath. Lucy Maud Montgomery gay beautiful love 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. Lucy Maud Montgomery trouble children people 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. Lucy Maud Montgomery sacrifice war children When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far. Lucy Maud Montgomery stars twilight may Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you. Lucy Maud Montgomery glad-to-be-alive lovely world
