The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

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.

Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?

the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.