Like all woods, it seemed to be holding and enfolding secrets in its recesses,—secrets whose charm is only to be won by entering in and patiently seeking.
Life is rich and full here … everywhere … if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fulness.
Life is rich and full here... everywhere... if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fullness.
Let the Piper come and welcome, he cried, waving his hand. I'LL follow him gladly round and round the world.
Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting,
John Foster says, quoted Valancy, '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...
I’ve had a splendid time, she concluded happily, and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
I’m not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn’t it a splendid thing that there are mornings?
It's snowing some today and Marilla says the old woman in the sky is shaking her feather beds. Is the old woman in the sky God's wife, Anne? I want to know. Mrs.
It's about Diana,' sobbed Anne luxuriously. 'I love Diana so, Marilla. I cannot ever live without her. But I know very well when we grow up that Diana will get married and go away and leave me. And oh...
It's a fearful responsibility to have a child in your house you can't trust.
It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.
It is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
It is always safe to dream of spring. For it is sure to come; and if it be not just as we have pictured it, it will be infinitely sweeter.
It is a start, and I mean to keep on, I find written in my old journal of that year.
It doesn't matter if a man does use bad grammar so long as he is a good provider and doesn't go poking round the pantry to see how much sugar you've used in a week.
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em, said
In two more years I’ll be really grown up. It’s a great comfort to think that I’ll be able to use big words then without being laughed at. Ruby
In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well