An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
She will love deeply – suffer terribly – she will have glorious moments to compensate.
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it’s what they bring to the world that really counts.
There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won’t talk back – unless it is a woman who won’t.
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
In this world you’ve just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you’ll never be and you need not waste time in trying.
All things great are wound up with all things little.
Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness.
It’s all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it’s not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
We belong to the race that knows Joseph.
It only seems as if you are doing something when you’re worrying.
That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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.
Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It’s only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.