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Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you." --
Source : J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1857, e-artnow
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#Lovely Quotes
#Alive Quotes
#World Quotes
“The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.”
“By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.”
“I could actually do a lot more if I didn't have things go wrong. So, what I am trying to do now is stay light on the parasites. If you are not drained by anyone you can do way more.”
“Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.”
Source : Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.106, Penguin
“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
“The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.”
“Being asked, "Where are you REALLY from?" It makes one feel OTHERED.”
Source : "BYT Interviews: Celeste Ng". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 22, 2016.
“It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.”