“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
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