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Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Well, I don’t want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life

I’m not a bit changed--not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real me--back here--is just the same.

It would be worth while to win, but she no longer thought life would be insupportable if she did not.

I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us.

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.

Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it.

It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes--what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows--what new landscapes--what new beauties--what curves and hills and valleys further on.

I’m not ungrateful--and perhaps--when this horrible ache grows a little less--I’ll find that I can go on living.

The thought that it may stop hurting sometimes hurts me worse than all else, Marilla.

Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.

Carlo got very fond of me--and his dog-love helped me through that first dreadful year after mother died, when I was alone.

Do not confound yourself by considering the whole of life, and by dwelling upon the multitude and greatness of the pains and troubles to which you may probably be exposed.

If you are beaten off, return again to the effort, and content yourself that your conduct is generally such as becomes a man.

Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.

if you see that anything is within man's power, and part of his proper work, conclude that you also may attain to it

So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man—the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.

If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.

Life’s not easy…don’t try and make it that way. It’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, it won’t ever be.

Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em.

We give thanks for these things and that gratitude reciprocates, creating more to be thankful for. It’s simple, and it works.

We have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limit — where we think it’s all too good to be true.

It is doubtful whether a person could be a failure while engaged in work which he liked best.