Motivational quotes

We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.

Mrs. Allan describes the guilt that can accompany renewed interest in life after a loved one’s death, helping Anne feel understood.

Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it.

The closing narration affirms that Anne’s changed plans can still hold quiet happiness.

It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes--what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows--what new landscapes--what new beauties--what curves and hills and valleys further on.

Anne imagines possibilities in the unfamiliar future after her original college plans change.

I’m not ungrateful--and perhaps--when this horrible ache grows a little less--I’ll find that I can go on living.

Anne acknowledges the care of her friends while cautiously imagining life beyond the sharpest pain of losing her baby.

The thought that it may stop hurting sometimes hurts me worse than all else, Marilla.

After her baby’s death, Anne admits that the prospect of grief fading can itself feel painful.

Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.

Having experienced bereavement herself, Anne is careful about offering easy words to a friend in pain.

Carlo got very fond of me--and his dog-love helped me through that first dreadful year after mother died, when I was alone.

Leslie remembers the comfort her dog gave her after her mother’s death, while mourning the dog in turn.

Do not confound yourself by considering the whole of life, and by dwelling upon the multitude and greatness of the pains and troubles to which you may probably be exposed.

The remedy he offers instead: ask of each trouble, as it presents itself, what in it is unbearable.

If you are beaten off, return again to the effort, and content yourself that your conduct is generally such as becomes a man.

Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.

if you see that anything is within man's power, and part of his proper work, conclude that you also may attain to it

So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man—the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up