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- That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- It's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them—that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Exercise is medicine. Literally. Just like a pill, it reliably changes brain function by altering the activity of key brain chemicals and hormones.
- Stephen S. Ilardi PhD, The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs, 2009
- Medication isn’t the only way to correct brain abnormalities in depression. Physical exercise also brings about profound changes in the brain—changes that rival those seen with the most potent antidepressant medications.
- Stephen S. Ilardi PhD, The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs, 2009
- To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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