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Write something for us, and never mind the rest of the world. Try it, dear. I’m sure it would do you good, and please us very much.

All sorts of mornings are interesting, don’t you think? You don’t know what’s going to happen through the day, and there’s so much scope for imagination.

I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don’t make, although I might.

But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice.

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

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.

Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.

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.

To the man who is penetrated with true principles, the shortest, the most common hint is a sufficient memorial to keep him free of sorrow and fear.

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

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

Look back on these forebodings, not hastily but reluctantly made, and see how in every instance they have completely failed.

To the hopes of the hostile, the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

I grew tired and did more harm than good; so, if I met with a difficult point, for example, in algebra, instead of poring over it till I was bewildered, I left it, took my work or some amusing book, and resumed it when my mind was fresh.

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.

TIME is a Master Worker that heals the wounds of temporary defeat; equalizes the inequalities, and rights the wrongs of the world. There is nothing ‘impossible’ with time!

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, SMILE! This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

True magnanimity consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Failure often leads a man to success by arousing his latent energy, by firing a dormant purpose, by awakening powers which were sleeping.

No matter if you have lost your property, your health, your reputation even, there is always hope for the man who keeps a firm faith in himself and looks up.

Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.