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- I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
- 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
- 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.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Worrying helps you some—it seems as if you were doing something when you're worrying.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
- 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
- If the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
- 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
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