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“...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?”

Life Imagination Interesting Wonder

Book:Anne of Green Gables

Source: Anne of Green Gables

“Isn’t it splendid there are so many things to like in this world?”

Life Joy

Book:Anne of Green Gables

Source: Anne of Green Gables

“Well, we have to take what’s handed out to us in this world, parents and children alike.”

Life Children Parent Acceptance Life And Living Parenting Parents Child

Book:The Blythes Are Quoted

Source: The Blythes Are Quoted

“I suppose we’ll get used to being grownup in time. There won’t be so many unexpected things about it by and by–though, after all, I fancy it’s the unexpected things that give spice to life.”

Life Life Lessons Life Quotes Growing Up Spice Of Life Anne Of Green Gables

Book:Anne of the Island

Source: Anne of the Island

“She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever. Where was it now--the glory and the dream?”

Life Growing Up Anne Of The Island

Author:L.M. Montgomery

“Is anyone really happy in this mad world?”

World Life Happiness Life And Living Happy Happy Life Mad World

Book:The Blythes Are Quoted

Source: The Blythes Are Quoted

“It is so long since I have had a chance to live a day. You know we don’t live at Ashburn ... we just exist.”

Life Happiness Existence Meaning Of Life Live Live In The Moment Live Your Best Life Exist Existing

Book:The Blythes Are Quoted

Source: The Blythes Are Quoted

“Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful . . . that they are alive, if for nothing else. I feel exactly as Eve must have felt in the garden of Eden before the trouble began.”

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Book:Anne of Avonlea

Source: Anne of Avonlea

“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”

Life Freedom Prison

Book:The Blue Castle

Source: The Blue Castle

“Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. On the surface it would go on just the same; but the deeps had been stirred. It must not be the same with her as with poor butterfly Ruby. When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different—something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must begin here on earth.”

Life Death Heaven Eternity

Book:Anne of the Island

Source: Anne of the Island

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