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“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Regret #Mistake #Should
“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Inspirational #Mistake #Air
“In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#World #Hoping For The Best #Worst
“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.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Suffering #Depth #Height
“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Thinking #Interesting #Alive
“There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Use #World
“That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Spring #World #Good Things
“Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Girl #Sea #Vision
“It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Worry
“A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Prayer #Laughing #Sometimes
“I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Eye #Tea #Tables
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Memories #Long #Remember
“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Thinking #Interesting #Different
“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.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Life #Wisdom #People
“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Positive #Encouraging #Uplifting
“When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Queens #Lying #Believe
“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 #Waste
“We belong to the race that knows Joseph”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Race
“Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#People #Soul #Legs
“I suppose all this sounds very crazy â€” all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken â€” only felt and endured.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Crazy #Sound #Emotion
“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray Iâ€™ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the skyâ€”upâ€”upâ€”upâ€”into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Faith #Prayer #Sky
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Ideas #People #Laughing
“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into oneâ€™s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to oneâ€™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

#Love #Beautiful #Gay
“The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Cat #Animal #Gray
“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.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Sorry #New Years Resolution #Trying
“Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Stars #Twilight #Down And
“It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Knowing #Wicked #Easy
“Since you are determined to be married, Miss Cornelia," said Gilbert solemnly, "I shall give you the excellent rules for the management of a husband which my grandmother gave my mother when she married my father." "Well, I reckon I can manage Marshall Elliott," said Miss Cornelia placidly. "But let us hear your rules." "The first one is, catch him." "He's caught. Go on." "The second one is, feed him well." "With enough pie. What next?" "The third and fourth are-- keep your eye on him.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Mother #Husband #Father
“Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Romance #Peeping
“If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery”
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Sometimes #Following

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