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She gave him entire confidence, he gave her the help she needed, and both found consolation in the act.

Beth smiled and felt comforted, for the tiny thing seemed to offer its small friendship and remind her that a pleasant world was still to be enjoyed.

We won’t be miserable, but enjoy being together while we wait. We’ll have happy times, for I don’t suffer much, and I think the tide will go out easily, if you help me.

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?

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us.

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.

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

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

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

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

Concentration makes the individual life simpler and deeper.

Each day there should be fresh resolution, new strength, and renewed enthusiasm.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying.

Happiness is paradoxic because it may coexist with trial, sorrow and poverty.

Happiness is the voice of optimism, of faith, of simple, steadfast love.

The basis of happiness is the love of something outside self.

Find happiness in ordinary things. The weight you carry on your shoulders needs a break. A little positivity in your thoughts will help you carry greater struggle with hope and energy. Noticing a little joyful thing when you are hurt helps a lot.