I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I have only known you for a few months but I cannot realize that there was ever a time when I did… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Tell me this--if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew you'd never have a… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I think, perhaps, we have very mistaken ideas about heaven -- what it is and what it holds for us. I don't… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I’m so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much True friendship is very helpful indeed, and we should have a very… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Anne walked home very slowly in the moonlight. The evening had changed something for her. Life held a different meaning, a deeper… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Tell me this--if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew you'd never have a line published--would… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
Hark, I hear a robin calling! List, the wind is from the south! And the orchard-bloom is falling Sweet as kisses on the mouth.… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
“In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share
