Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

“As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.”

“A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and giv...”

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

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

“When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies aro...”

“When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.”

“Tell me this--if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew you'd never have a line published--would you still go on writing--would you?' 'Of course I would,' sa...”

“Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.”

“There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.”

“Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.”

“In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”