When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so. " Anne of Green Gables

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

I don't know, 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.

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor

I think is sad, how easily we throw around the word without actually understanding the sacrifice behind its meaning. Love in its definition isn't about a strong feeling towards someone, but action.

But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!

Forgive others often yourself never.

I just find that humans are predictable and stupid and animals and nature are a lot more magical to me. I'm just interested in magic, and not the silly humans.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

One of the hardest things for a person with autism to do is believe in themselves. But autistics have every right to be as proud as anyone.

But no one came. Because no one ever does.